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Ampro 3600 fried?
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LBSmidtfyn



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Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2016 10:25 am    Post subject: Ampro 3600 fried?

G2 wires partly melted to the metal. Jumper10 multiwire a bit flossy. Fuse f4 blown. When fuse replaced, it fires up, light the tubes, stays on with full tubelight for 2 sec, then shuts down. Heading to the dumpster?
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LBSmidtfyn



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Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2016 4:01 pm    Post subject:

Happened when i tryed to turn the red tube to align with the green. the back of the crt-tube touched a heatsink, and the thing shorted..
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Curt Palme
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Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2016 5:07 pm    Post subject:

Shouldn't be hard to fix. Your tubes are being driven too hard, then the HV shuts down to protect the tubes. I'm out of town for the weekend, but can check the service manual next week and see if I have boards in stock.
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LBSmidtfyn



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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2016 2:42 am    Post subject:

Thanx:)
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LBSmidtfyn



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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2016 5:04 pm    Post subject:

Do you know if there are any interchangeable parts between the 3600 & the 4200?
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Curt Palme
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2016 5:07 pm    Post subject:

I don't think there's any, sorry!
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cmjohnson



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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2016 9:23 pm    Post subject:

Find Tse on this forum (member search) and send him a PM. He probably knows as much as anybody alive
(or dead) about AmPros since he helped create them.
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AnalogRocks
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 1:13 am    Post subject:

cmjohnson wrote:
Find Tse on this forum (member search) and send him a PM. He probably knows as much as anybody alive
(or dead) about AmPros since he helped create them.


Tse helped me get my Ampro 4000 going when it looked like it wouldn't run again. He's super good with Ampros.

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LBSmidtfyn



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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 8:28 am    Post subject:

Waiting for Curt to see if he has a solution. Then i look up TSE as suggested.
What a nice forum this is. Thankyou for helping me and everyone out👍
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LBSmidtfyn



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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 8:32 am    Post subject:

Tse's last visit to the forum was 5 months ago?
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LBSmidtfyn



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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 11:06 am    Post subject: Took some pictures of the mess..

These parts touched, and then immidialy fuse in LVPS went of. Since that happened it just turn on, light the crt's 2 sec. then powers of
http://www.hitbussen.dk/jpg/3.jpg

Wires damaged. But they were in that shape before the short. And everything worked fine. Allmost looks like mice...
http://www.hitbussen.dk/jpg/1.jpeg
http://www.hitbussen.dk/jpg/2.jpeg
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Curt Palme
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 2:39 pm    Post subject:

OK, I'll get to the service manual today. Strange that the G2 wire would crumble like that. I'd definitely replace it right from under the motherboard.
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LBSmidtfyn



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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 3:06 pm    Post subject:

Yeah, and all three G2 wires looks like that.
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Curt Palme
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 3:19 pm    Post subject:

What I would do to start is measure the G2 voltage. It should be somewhere between 400-800 volts DC. Let me know where that's at.

ALso you can try to unplug two of the three CRT sockets, so that only one tube is connected. See if you can get one or two tubes to work. A shorted CRT socket/video amp can cause the problem you're seeing.
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LBSmidtfyn



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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 3:41 pm    Post subject:

I'm not sure how to do that. G2 voltage measure by +probe on G2-wire and -probe on chassis? How do I unplug CRT sockets?
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 3:48 pm    Post subject:

Correct on the G2 measurement. Disconnect the G2 lead, and there's two wiring harnesses on each CRT board that go to multipin connectors. Unplug those at the CRT socket to disconnect the tube from the circuit.
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LBSmidtfyn



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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 4:17 pm    Post subject:

With only green crt plugged same result. But meter reads 972 Volt....
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LBSmidtfyn



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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 4:18 pm    Post subject:

Very bright green though:)
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Curt Palme
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 5:45 pm    Post subject:

OK, there's your problem, that's way too high for the G2! I therefore suspect a problem in the HVPS. I need the X part number, and the 4 digits after that, could be X2102 or X3394, etc.
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 5:50 pm    Post subject:

X2394
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