[BC] Platinum-Z problem

Mike McCarthy Towers at mre.com
Thu Feb 26 20:07:25 CST 2009


You must have small hands and arms.  I can't back to rear two....  And I 
have thin arms relatively speaking.

This is a great example of engineering for ease of assembly.  Not ease of 
repair.

MM

At 04:47 PM 2/26/2009 -0800, Lotus Engineering wrote
>Allen,
>         Last Month I spent three days with a Harris field tech replacing 
> the filter boards that go on the surface that isolates the RF sections 
> from the  control sections in a Z20 (combined Z10's) that had a roof leak 
> into it.  These filter cards (About $100 each) are relatively easy to replace.
>
>         They have a thin sheet plastic cover that may mask the problem, 
> but when that is removed the corrosion became obvious.  Most of them are 
> pretty easy to get to.
>
>         The leak caused some other problems as well with a master 
> controller card and an IP back plane.  Those were pretty easy to replace 
> once I knew what to replace.
>
>Bill
>
>Bill Croghan CPBE WBØKSW
>Chief Engineer,
>KOMP/KXPT/KENO/KBAD/KWWN/KWID
>Lotus Broadcasting, Las Vegas, NV
>Direct   702-315-3030
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