11-19-2020, 09:35 PM
OK. I have to be a bit blunt here.
Megan, a piece of advice:
38-14 is not the best radio to start learning from. It is an AC/DC set. There is exact same radio in exact same case, 38-15 which is an AC only set that has a power transformer that makes it that much safer to work on. 38-14 has no transformer and so it puts you under the Mains potential when working on it.
So. I take it, you are not yet a very experienced electronics person, so: if you are serious about it, get at least an isolation transformer. Let alone the fact that if the radio works you will have to align it and for this you will be touching stuff on it.
Oh....and you will need some things to align it with, meaning you will have to buy some testing equipment. Of course there are shortcuts....but then they are shortcuts.
Best of luck.
Megan, a piece of advice:
38-14 is not the best radio to start learning from. It is an AC/DC set. There is exact same radio in exact same case, 38-15 which is an AC only set that has a power transformer that makes it that much safer to work on. 38-14 has no transformer and so it puts you under the Mains potential when working on it.
So. I take it, you are not yet a very experienced electronics person, so: if you are serious about it, get at least an isolation transformer. Let alone the fact that if the radio works you will have to align it and for this you will be touching stuff on it.
Oh....and you will need some things to align it with, meaning you will have to buy some testing equipment. Of course there are shortcuts....but then they are shortcuts.
Best of luck.
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