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Philco 39-45 hums on some stations
Eric T
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08-12-2013, 07:06 PM
I got home from work today and all the ladies were out and about, so I took the opportunity to do some troubleshooting. I shut off all the 120V circuit breakers for the house and ran an extension cord to my radio from the garage. Then I turned on the circuits one at a time until the noise came back. That narrowed down the noisemaker to one area of the house. Then I started pulling plugs in that room until the noise stopped. That unmasked the culprit: an audio amp/speaker set we use for the TV. It's probably got some bad electrolytics. I'll see if it can be fixed this coming weekend.

That is a load off of my mind. I was afraid I was going to have to pull the chassis out of the radio again. Icon_smile
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Philco 39-45 hums on some stations - by Eric T - 08-03-2013, 10:53 AM
RE: Philco 39-45 hums on some stations - by marty - 08-04-2013, 03:34 PM
RE: Philco 39-45 hums on some stations - by Eric T - 08-12-2013, 07:06 PM
RE: Philco 39-45 hums on some stations - by marty - 08-17-2013, 01:40 PM



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