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Flying Rockmite 20 metere QRPp tranciever issues and projects
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Remove reverse power supply protection diode #23

Closed hcarter333 closed 1 year ago

hcarter333 commented 1 year ago

Remove the power supply protection diode. As noted in this page http://solorb.com/elect/hamcirc/rockmite20/index.html the diode pulls about a volt of avaliable supply voltage as soon as the current gets in the box. Look into eventually replacing the diode with a different diode placed in reverse to ground as shown in the above link: image datasheets attached below

1N4001-D.PDF 6a05-6a10-25734.pdf

hcarter333 commented 1 year ago

Removed and radio still working! image

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