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philco mystery control remote signal level
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I hooked the remote to an arbe 3 battery eliminator and wired the control to put out a constant RF. I set the filament voltage at the voltage that the tube called for, and left the plate voltage at 45. The remote puts off a weak signal at just a few feet away, but when I attached a random length of wire to the tuning condensor, the remote sent out a very strong RF signal that I had no trouble receiving at 20 plus feet away. This leads me to believe that there is something amiss with the output coil of the remote, and the random wire antenna was taking its place and making it work again. I have ohmed out everything in the remote and none of the coils came up open. The cap and resistor are spot on, and the little mica cap across the tuning condensor checks out fine also.


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RE: philco mystery control remote signal level - by CR220 - 06-09-2022, 10:32 PM



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