My AS III had given me a new problem- I went to power it on yesterday and it was dead as a doornail. I disassembled it (thanks Batdude for the awesome guide) and with the service manual I was able to find the problem- a blown SMD fuse on the RF board.
I don't have the skill to replace SMD components, so I am going to let a radio shop handle the fuse replacement. However, I'm curious as to what would make a fuse blow. They don't blow randomly, and nothing of note happened since the last time I used it. I got home from work, turned radio off, and put it in the charger like always. I'm just curious if this could be indicative of a larger problem or if it was truly just a random wtf incident.
Ideas?
What can make an Astro Saber blow a fuse?
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Re: What can make an Astro Saber blow a fuse?
" What can make an Astro Saber blow a fuse? "
Too much current
Sorry
Couldn't help myself
Too much current
Sorry
Couldn't help myself
Re: What can make an Astro Saber blow a fuse?
KF5LSC wrote:My AS III had given me a new problem- I went to power it on yesterday and it was dead as a doornail. I disassembled it (thanks Batdude for the awesome guide) and with the service manual I was able to find the problem- a blown SMD fuse on the RF board.
I don't have the skill to replace SMD components, so I am going to let a radio shop handle the fuse replacement. However, I'm curious as to what would make a fuse blow. They don't blow randomly, and nothing of note happened since the last time I used it. I got home from work, turned radio off, and put it in the charger like always. I'm just curious if this could be indicative of a larger problem or if it was truly just a random wtf incident.
Ideas?
I have seen this happen on various portables occaisionally when the battery of the portable has a bad cell/s
and would cause a larger then normal current draw if the user left the radio turned on as soon as the charger
started up a charge cycle.
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Re: What can make an Astro Saber blow a fuse?
Haha. Besides that. Thanks for the giggleescomm wrote:" What can make an Astro Saber blow a fuse? "
Too much current
Sorry
Couldn't help myself
Well, does anybody on here have an extra 6505757V02, Fuse, SMD, 2 amp laying around? The local MSS couldn't help me because their inventory lady was "out on leave," although the tech did say that he could replace the fuse with a small piece of wire (!!!). And this is a shop that has all the 3 and 4 letter agency contracts in the county....go figure. *facepalm*
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Re: What can make an Astro Saber blow a fuse?
I can fix it for you if you want to pay the shipping both ways.... PM me.KF5LSC wrote:Haha. Besides that. Thanks for the giggleescomm wrote:" What can make an Astro Saber blow a fuse? "
Too much current
Sorry
Couldn't help myself
Well, does anybody on here have an extra 6505757V02, Fuse, SMD, 2 amp laying around? The local MSS couldn't help me because their inventory lady was "out on leave," although the tech did say that he could replace the fuse with a small piece of wire (!!!). And this is a shop that has all the 3 and 4 letter agency contracts in the county....go figure. *facepalm*
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Lance: What?
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Lance: What?
Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing in the world smells like that.
Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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Re: What can make an Astro Saber blow a fuse?
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