Skip, Good pictures and yes the smoke did get out. Can't tell on the bulb is it cracked pr blackened. Other then that looks pretty repairable. Its interesting that they put a resistor near the excitation coil. Is that a way of getting feedback for oscillation?? Regards Paul WB8TSL
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Skip Withrow <skip.with...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello time-nuts, > > Well, broke out a PRS10 that I had put away for a project some time ago and > upon power up found that it had issues. Status indicated low lamp output > and high lamp temperature. Duh! Upon removal of the lamp assembly it > became abundantly clear that the magic smoke had gotten out. > > If I recall correctly, seems like there was another PRS10 with corrosion > issues in the same area. My guess is that the heat does not help this > situation. I suspect that I may have a full-on heater, which may have > caused the tantalum cap (and possibly other) failures. > > Looks like this may be the weak spot in these oscillators. I'm very > hopeful that a rebuild will bring it back to life. > > Thought you would enjoy the pictures though. Two are attached. > > Regards, > Skip Withrow > > < > https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=oa-2322-b > > > Virus-free > < > https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=oa-2322-b > > > <#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
