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Triplecguy
| | Posted on Monday, October 27, 2003 - 3:49 pm: | 
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A friend gave me a DX-88 to look at at to see if I could figure out why it is not functioning properly. I figured out that it is broken. It seems someone with a "Golden Screwdriver" had their way with it, charged the guy 50 bucks and gave it back. The internal speaker has been cut loose, a wire was pinched by one of the small circuit boards and fried upon power up and blew out a ceramic cap, the RFI shield is missing off of another small board and has a big solder bridge broken off that held the board in, the frequency counter will not stay on a set frequency, but it will not change frequncy either, it bounces around 25.167, some of the led lights on the channel indicator do not light, the band selector switch is not lined up, it is missing most of the factory screws that hole the boards and the covers in place, there is variable resistor, or more like what's left of it, directly in front of one of the finals, and that's just what I saw. I am not a tech by any means and I know that this thing is toast!!! It was a brand new rig "so I'm told" and needs serious repair. There is also various clipped and spliced wires that look like a rats nest inside. Can any of the techs here honestly tell me if it is worthe repairing, or should the guy just buy another one? From what I understand about electronics, the PLL is way outta whack and whomever tried to adjust the output power opened it up way to much and smoked a resistor, and then lost most of the screws and a RFI cover. Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated from anybody who know anything about stuff like this. I believe the guy paid about 350 bucks for it (I know copper sells em cheaper but the guy is an IDIOT for obvious reasons)and I'm sure it would have to be at least 100-150 bucks for reapir , but could anyone give me an honest estimate? Thanx to all,
DAN |
307
| | Posted on Monday, October 27, 2003 - 5:50 pm: |
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I will look at it for you , I like challenges..
email me at tech307@copperelectronics.com
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