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PD705 - SOLID Green LED

Thread starter Sputnik1
Start date Nov 28, 2018

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Sputnik1

Member

Nov 28, 2018

Hello everyone

I have an ongoing issue with some PD7 series radios which has been haunting me for a few years now.

For reasons unknown I quite often get some 705s back for repair where the Green Rx LED is solid
ON from the instant of switch on.

No boot up sequence
No boot up successful jingle
No TX
No RX

in essence these radios are bricks......

Yet they will go into Flash mode happily and will also accept a FW upgrade.

However even then once flashed they again become bricks with a green fairy light on the top thereafter.

Cant seem to find anyone who knows the why nor how except to ship back for FPR....... :-(

any ideas would be appreciated and acknowledge

many thanks

Sputnik