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Muxlow

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Got a new orion and it dont work. All the things you boys told me are fine..
So i was looking on the PA unit on the red wire to the place it connects to the board.
And i see that R49 has some burn marks around it.
What does that do and how can it be fixed? Or to make sure that really is the problem?
 

JungleJim

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R49 is the termistor used to sense the heat of final and back off the power when it gets too hot. If it got fried you may have had a pretty bad meltdown. The other possibility is that the power transistor(s) may have been replaced and whoever did it didn't clean it up well. In either case though I don't think it would keep your radio from powering up.

What is the power rating of the amp, 20W, 40W or 100W?
 

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The 20W will have the black brick as the RF final amplifier. The 45W will have the black brick followed by a single RF power transistor (white circle with six leads). The 100W has that with the addition of two more power transistors in parallel for the final.
 
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