Thanks buddy. Learning a lot with you. Happy Sunday.
@3Cr15w3117 жыл бұрын
It was neat to hear "Flashlight" as the first song the radio was playing when you fixed it. Nice video! You're right about older music being better.
@daleburrell62736 жыл бұрын
3Cr15w311 Well, that didn't turn ME on-!!
@tarstarkusz5 жыл бұрын
Wow. That's about 200 hours of listening time on a set of 4 AA cells at only 12 milliamps. That's a very well made and efficient radio. Truly a nice machine. It's a shame that it had to be one of the few parts in the radio that can not be had new.
@Jeffrey3141595 жыл бұрын
Maybe the use of the earphone has more to do with extending the life of the batteries than listening in a noisy location, or a room where silence is required. Cheap batteries back then ran dry very quickly, then leaked :-Z
@tarstarkusz5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, 200 is probably a bit high. Maybe more like 100 or less with good quality carbon-zinc batteries. One assumes RCA branded batteries were on the good quality end of the spectrum. I'm not sure if carbon-zinc cells leak or not. I know modern Chinese made alkalines leak terribly.
@teacfan10807 жыл бұрын
I remember back in the mid-70's and well into the 80's, there was a station where I used to live, KKOA, that played current hits. Listened to that all the time. Today, they're still on the air, playing "classic rock" tunes. They don't play as much music as before as they are also a sports station.
@TonyButchT7 жыл бұрын
Appreciated the explanation during the repair and troubleshooting...Thanks!
@justsumguy2u7 жыл бұрын
Great job there, and some nice in-depth troubleshooting. No one would find a fault like that by replacing capacitors, that's for sure. That radio has a nice tone to it, sounds good for a portable
@Radiowild7 жыл бұрын
Your persistence paid off! That was a terrific job of breaking down the circuit! Another weird RCA transistor problem I've found (more than once) is excessive resistance on the bias transistors on the push/pull finals. Well done!
@Jeffrey3141595 жыл бұрын
8:30 Was the connection of the earphone to the output of the first driver thus avoiding the complimentary symmetry pair, a means of conserving battery life thru use of Hi-Z earphones - - their impedance is not stated on the crktry schematic
@MichaelBeeny7 жыл бұрын
Not often these days to see a high impedance speaker, still it was probably a cost saving not to need an output matching transformer.
@AMStationEngineer7 жыл бұрын
A damn fine example of troubleshooting! Two friends of mine do "cleanouts" on Long Island, I'll send them the link to this video, so that maybe they can come up with a similar RCA parts radio which will yield that component.
@pafoofnic7 жыл бұрын
We've got many music stations on A.M., couldn't find any in English. Only talk radio in our native language. (S.F. Bay Area) Thanks for the great troubleshooting and repair video.
@jwl92867 жыл бұрын
Way to go! Might have been impossible without the schematic! Great troubleshooting video! Thanks!
@cat-lw6kq4 жыл бұрын
Nice repair job sometimes I just replace the caps because I'm lazy. I first clean all switches and controls then it's caps and check the transistors.
@stephenwilliams52013 жыл бұрын
Mom worked for RCA. My selfe working for. Sylvania. I like to track tough dog radio. Thanks
@45AMT7 жыл бұрын
These things can be tricky to find. Great job hunting that problem down.
@Steven-re7xt11 ай бұрын
Yes a road map! And RCA was saving ears for a while.
@kennynvake4hve5846 жыл бұрын
How did a IF transformer short out by the radio coming off the seat on the floor???
@tango1ninerradiostar1257 жыл бұрын
This man is the greatest!!!
@daleburrell62735 жыл бұрын
...and he knows his stuff, too-!!
@charlesw3187 жыл бұрын
Great video as usual keep them coming thank you.
@seatboi5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the educational video! Who'd-a ever thought an IF xfrmr would short like that? Wierd! Great job tracking it down!
@td74567 жыл бұрын
Great troubleshooting skills!
@misterhat58237 жыл бұрын
That's the first time I've seen a center tapped speaker on a schematic.
@Jeffrey3141595 жыл бұрын
6:40 I think this push-pull arrangement was to conserve current use, the battery life was also extended by connecting the "earphones" to the first driver. The center tap could be for powering a field coil arrangement?
@old64goat7 жыл бұрын
Nice fix , I agree there is nothing on AM or even FM these days, just a lot of crap.
@klafong17 жыл бұрын
In the Portland area, we have a station that plays 1950s-1970s music (known as adult standards or nostalgia by industry people). However, it is up for sale and will soon be going bye-bye.
@TCGProductions037 жыл бұрын
I live in the East Texas area and there's still 2 or 3 FM stations that play good music. 106.5 has trashified itself for the most part after selling out to Jack FM, 101.5 is going with a lot of modern country, which isn't really country at all, so really 1 or 2 stations that still play good music. Over on AM, there's literally 1 or 2 talk stations on the entire dial. That's it. 102.3 FM sold out and went off the air about 9 months ago, but IIRC, it came back on the air a few months ago.
@100Transistors7 жыл бұрын
here in Australia there is nothing on AM except sports, and language stations, the other part of the band is 2 music stations
@erin190306 жыл бұрын
You sure bitch and moan a lot, must be your arthritus. I do understand.
@markmarkofkane81675 жыл бұрын
Commercials. Just like television.
@7c3c72602f7054696b4 жыл бұрын
I should upload the unboxing of my Zenith H500. I was floored it arrived in one piece, I wanted a restoration project not a potential box full of broken stuff ironically resembling a terrible DIY kit. To be clear it survived...somehow! Edit: and as for putting it away when it gets annoying...sage advice.
@wdavem7 жыл бұрын
That was interesting. I did once (and only once so far) see a small, low voltage electrolytic cap shorted in a tv someone else was working on. This was in the mid 90's, in a TV that was only a few years old, at a TV repair shop I worked at briefly when I was a kid. They had someone who would come in when they had certain jobs or heavy work loads who did know his stuff. Took him several sessions but he found the shorted cap in the S-video section. Symptom was (if I remember) no picture at all. I was doing something basic on a VCR while paying attention to him and his continuity meter went off and he shouted 'there it is!'. The other two guys who owned the shop came in and they quickly worked out what to do and replaced the bad cap with two other ones and carefully checked the picture quality and it looked damn good to me.
@daleburrell62735 жыл бұрын
...or as Archimedes would say: "EUREKA!!"
@mjg2637 жыл бұрын
Boy that's a weird failure, some fine troubleshootin' there! Hope you find a replacement xfrmer for your personal RCA radio, it looks to be in good condition and it should be working even if there is nothing but crap on AM these days.
@plantopguy57 жыл бұрын
Nice job, enjoyed. Thanks for sharing.
@josephsirois23537 жыл бұрын
At first I thought you had a shorted driver transistor , but dropping a radio don’t usually cause that lol . Nice work !
@CORDELIOLEAR5 жыл бұрын
Wonderful! Where do you get the schematics from?
@chilledoutpaul7 жыл бұрын
Its a long shot but have you tested the earphone jack, its big and bulky enough to take a knock, some times if one transistor is not grounded it throws the rest of the transistors out!
@helioshaul39247 жыл бұрын
Great Video Thanks .
@andymann12317 жыл бұрын
as usual a great video
@jeffzin57792 жыл бұрын
Very Nice Job
@HDXFH7 жыл бұрын
We do have a great proper old school AM station in my area, 50s to 1975 classics
@nor42776 жыл бұрын
I hope you can find that part for your radio too,it was a pretty amazing save ,i keep am around because ca has lot of am stations ,i mostly listen to kfi,talk radio ,and fm we have two real good oldie stations i like anything but rap.
@ThresholdDreamer1117 жыл бұрын
I miss having a dedicated Beautiful Music format station on radio. I love renting a car that has Sirius XM satellite radio, because you can tune into their Escape Channel 69 and hear some really great old-time easy listening, and there are a few online stations that try and preserve the format, but it's been completely eliminated from terrestrial radio, which makes me sad. When people in the late 80s and early 90s began deriding it as "elevator music" you began to see it slowly disappear, usually being relegated to overnights on some lite rock stations, then totally phased out.
@KenKen-ui4ny7 жыл бұрын
Hey that dial on that radio kind of remind me of the dial on an old Honeywell round thermostat
@stereomann837 жыл бұрын
what kind of solder do you use and where did you buy it
@dancutler74187 жыл бұрын
There is silver solder, lead free solder, acid core solder, rosin core solder, alloy solder with copper. Rosin core solder is used for electronics repair.
@Elfnetdesigns7 жыл бұрын
he uses what any respectable repair person worth their salt uses, 60/40 leaded rosin core..
@daleburrell62737 жыл бұрын
ElfNet Gaming LEAD-FREE SOLDER IS TERRIBLE!!!
@HDXFH7 жыл бұрын
Nice little radio
@psionl05 жыл бұрын
If you want an AM station that plays decent music then you may have to wire up your own transmitter. At least you can get the music you prefer from the internet and play it through the transmitter.
@funkytownpomadesadgirlcosm36106 жыл бұрын
Hi, how can I get ahold of you?
@daleburrell62732 жыл бұрын
...I fixed a Bulova series 1140, that had a shorted IF transformer-(!)
@greggaieck41193 жыл бұрын
I hop you can fix your friends Radio Receiver
@therealjammit7 жыл бұрын
I was thinking. The center tap on the primary doesn't have to be grounded for it to work. If you separate the center tap from ground with an appropriate capacitor you might have been able to continue using the transformer. Edit: Never mind. Looked at the schematic again. Q3 collector needs a DC path to work.
@umajunkcollector7 жыл бұрын
things looked kewl in the 40-50s.
@markanderson3507 жыл бұрын
You could capacitor couple the diode to pin 2 and disconnect pin 5 by cutting the trace.
@xsc10007 жыл бұрын
It's not that easy, because you don't know where exactly is the short connection - it could be in fact close to pin2. Also AM detector creates DC voltage for fist stage AGC. So after coupling capacitor on pin 2 you should add resistor to pin5 to restore correct DC voltage for AGC.
@markanderson3507 жыл бұрын
Its an idea, try it and see. The worse you could do is waste a few minutes.
@rtesimpson7 жыл бұрын
Great job RTVPN...
@nathanm82327 жыл бұрын
Hey radio tv phononut. Can you fix dvd drives? I have a vhs DVD player and the DVD player side doesn’t work. is there any chance you can fix my dvd drive?
@daleburrell62737 жыл бұрын
MaXxVolcity An awful lot of the NEWER stuff is so complicated and so cheap, that it's not worth fixing- this is particularly true for electro-mechanical stuff like DVD players...
@sheldonlatimer66884 жыл бұрын
👍 job
@vincentdiverniero46795 жыл бұрын
Sad to say the same thing happened in Connecticut well around the New Haven area anyway the only good station is wlng Long Island they play the jingle just like the old fifties and sixties radio stations and they dig up some songs some stuff I haven't heard in years 1 day artificial flowers by Bobby Darin came on now you know you don't normally hear something like that on the radio they always have something good on on the weekends are the Swap Shop people put stuff for sale or giveaway it's nice
@markmarkofkane81675 жыл бұрын
It's not common to hear "Amperes". It's usually "amps". I know "amps" is short for "Amperes". Even the Rolling Stones used 50 Ampere fuse in a song. (Guess the song) Good repair!
@johnnytacokleinschmidt5153 жыл бұрын
Is that in "Can't AlwaysGet What You Want?"
@markmarkofkane81673 жыл бұрын
@@johnnytacokleinschmidt515 yes.
@arthureverett82205 жыл бұрын
The speaker in that radio is AMERICAN made and is larger than the speakers in modern day Crosleys
@arthureverett82205 жыл бұрын
Maybe you can install a newer mini IF transformer in your radio
@daleburrell62734 жыл бұрын
...that's worth a try-!!
@northhankspin7 жыл бұрын
cool!
@blownEFI7 жыл бұрын
Twelve milly amp ears
@albertcarpentercats7 жыл бұрын
We pick up from Philly junk talk and sports,gospel no good oldies on am.
@vincentdiverniero46795 жыл бұрын
Wlng in Long Island
@phantomrose19995 жыл бұрын
Just subscribed as i do the same as you. Can you please mount your camera on a stand so i dont get car sick watching... keep up the content, good work.