08-05-2023, 12:40 PM
Here’s another fine mess. I got a 41-255 that was working. I got it repaired, checked it out briefly, set it aside. It came mostly repaired fairly recently and the repairs looked OK.
Checking today because I couldn’t trace a loose wire on my 41-250 I see the 41-255 blowing fuses. Pulled it and put it on the bench. The previous owner did some strange stuff I’m seeing.
Looks like I need to pull out all the electrolytics and put in the correct values. One was wired right to the bake light holder???? 20 mfd caps in series ?? Not really sure how this was working. I’d installed a fuse so that saved my bacon on this.
Since I have these two together on the bench I plan to just duplicate the repairs I made in the 41-250 - these are basically the same radios. If you read my WTB post I need to find the plugs for the speaker. These are both damaged one beyond repair. The power supply setup is the same so that should be ok.
The 41-250 is working great. Just a few more parts to install. This is fun.
Checking today because I couldn’t trace a loose wire on my 41-250 I see the 41-255 blowing fuses. Pulled it and put it on the bench. The previous owner did some strange stuff I’m seeing.
Looks like I need to pull out all the electrolytics and put in the correct values. One was wired right to the bake light holder???? 20 mfd caps in series ?? Not really sure how this was working. I’d installed a fuse so that saved my bacon on this.
Since I have these two together on the bench I plan to just duplicate the repairs I made in the 41-250 - these are basically the same radios. If you read my WTB post I need to find the plugs for the speaker. These are both damaged one beyond repair. The power supply setup is the same so that should be ok.
The 41-250 is working great. Just a few more parts to install. This is fun.
