[TenTec] Corsair II - intermittent LED readouts

[Jim Larsen - AL7FS <JimLarsen2002@alaska.net>]

Several of you have asked what I did on my readout to fix it.

It was simple in this case.
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I asked:
The readouts on this radio are intermittent, too.  Sometimes they are just
 fine and sometimes some of the segments fade out. One time I "banged" the
side of the rig and they came back on.   Do you know if I take off the front
panel (and all those 300 knobs) can I get to the LEDs and are they plug-in 
such that I can exercise the devices in and out of a socket?  ... I have the 
screws out right now but am loath to pull all those knobs and such.

From Harry Freeman, NK9R
No, you don't have to take off the knobs. Just unscrew the top of the
aluminium enclosure. The led board is right under it. Unplug it and put a
little contact cleaner in the connections and you should be good to go.
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I opened it up and found there was a cable of sorts with plugs than ran from 
the LED boards to a horizontal board.  I pulled the plug, noting which way it 
came off, and cleaned the pins and the sockets on the cable.  Plugging it back 
in, the readouts work perfectly now.  It did not look like the LEDs themselves 
came out but I supected plug to pin contact from the start.

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Take care.

73, Jim
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Jim Larsen, AL7FS
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.qsl.net/al7fs
Join Anchorage ARC: http://www.KL7AA.org


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