[bars] Ughh.... I think it's dead, Jim

[Tony Brock-Fisher]

Any chance it might have blown an internal fuse? Check the manual, 
schematic...

-Tony

On 8/19/2022 8:02 PM, Tim KC1RET wrote:
> Well, there is much sadness around my QTH today...  I think I killed 
> my TS-2000.
>
> I've had my TS2000 for a few months now and I'm loving it! The only 
> issue I've had with it was on a very hot day last month it did 
> shutdown (power off) during xmit. It came back on almost immediately. 
> It happened a few times that day. I caulked it up to a thermal 
> protection shutdown.
>
> Today, which was quite mild by comparison, it happened again. Only 
> this time, it did not come back on. It is completely dead - no 
> response to power button at all. I had done a pretty heavy FT8 session 
> earlier in the hour (I work FT8/4 almost exclusively) but was working 
> a POTA site on SSB at the time of the shutdown (sorry. HI8PAP - I 
> didn't mean to disappear in the middle of the QSO!). The fan was 
> running at the time, which is normal, but the radio did not seem at 
> all warm.
>
> I've confirmed the voltage on the supply cable (at the radio 
> connector), disconnected everything else, and tried a Full Reset - 
> nada. The AT was activated and I had recently done a tune on the 
> active band. The SWR meter on the radio barely moved during xmit.  
> There were no obvious 'POP's or signs of the magic smoke, just the 
> normal power-off sound.
>
> Is it dead, Jim?  Anyone know a good repair tech?
>
> T.
>
>
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