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advice needed: restoring 47-1230 - FM & AM now works!!!! :D (uncertain about SW)
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05-03-2011, 10:23 PM
Marsupial Wrote:I started to follow the readings mentionned in Riders, and identified one capacitor (C419) in the FM stage, that is shorted.
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Before you go any further with that particular cap, read this page on my site.

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Re: advice needed: new ecaps = 47-1230 no longer receives AM - by Ron Ramirez - 05-03-2011, 10:23 PM



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