Heathkit IG-42 Signal Generator Restoration – Part 4
Filed in Heathkit IG-42 on Oct.02, 2018
Cabinet Repair Now the the IG-42 was in good electrical order, it was time to move on to the cabinet repair.
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Heathkit IG-42 Signal Generator Restoration – Part 3
Filed in Heathkit IG-42 on Oct.02, 2018
Line Cord and Chassis repair — To continue on with the restoration, I replaced the ceramic disk filter capacitors on the line cord input with safety capacitors. These are designed to fail to an open state, rather than a shorted state. We hope that they never fail, but if they do, it should leave the […]
Heathkit C3 Condenser Checker – 25 Volt Mod
Filed in C3 Capacitor Tester on Feb.11, 2018
As noted in my previous post, the 25 volt scale for the leakage test function of the Heathkit C3 Condenser Checker provided a voltage that was considerably higher than 25 volts. It was closer to 50 volts. This seems to be a design flaw, or a documentation flaw, as I don’t know which side of […]
Thunderbird Hamfest Haul 2018
Filed in Test Equipment on Jan.14, 2018
I attended the Thunderbird Hamfest in Peoria yesterday. There were a few bargains to be had. While many sellers were expecting the high Ebay prices for their old junk, there were still a few that were actually looking to sell their goods. I started out with a purchase of some connectors and adapters from one […]
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Heathkit C3 Condenser Checker – Restoration
Filed in C3 Capacitor Tester on Jan.14, 2018
Ok, I’ve received my order from justradios.com. Now it’s time to replace almost all of the capacitors and a good number of the resistors in the C3 Condenser Checker. We’ll follow that up with a basic checkout, and finally finish up by testing the caps and resistors that we pull out. Here is what we […]
