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I bought this 8656B Signal generator off eBay and the units needs to be adjusted or repaired. If you have it on 4uV you can not hear it but move it to 100 uV and it works fine.
On the EZ Scope the B timing went out. Everything else works on it. I took it apart to see if I could see what the...
Been reading all this info as I have one on the bench doing the same thing.
Noticed there was no update on this. Please keep us posted on what you found out.
Chem-Wik is the only brand I use now. Used many others over the years and have to say Chem-Wik is the best. Warning is it not cheap! It has doubled in price!
Swing Mod for this radio is lift the front leg of L206 and install your swing mod there. Make sure the cap negative leg goes to the coil and the positive side goes into the hole you lifted L206 from.
40 watts is about average now. Back in the older models would do 50 but they changed things to make them a 40 watt radio.
Glad to hear you found the problem.
Don't throw away the old finals.
Find the bad one and pitch it then use the others for radios you want to mosfet like a cobra.
I had one do this and it was one of the 520's. Checked fine but once it heated up it would fail. Changed all 3 and she was up and running like new. Good luck!
Wanted to update this simple crystal checker as there is a part that was not listed on the output. Make sure you add a 0.01 uF cap to it as shown.
Here is a test from a 10.240 Crystal using my Fluke Frequency counter along with using my homemade modified Gooit counter.
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