Thought I'd let all you guys, 25 replies I received with advice, what a great group of folks you all are! Anyway, I hooked up KN4UNA's AL-1200 amp he received from his uncle's estate, W4WWF Rober "Dale" Mash, that there was nothing wrong with the amp! W4WWF Dale passed away back on May 23, 2017 at age 56 from lung cancer and the amp had been sitting in Dale's house until recently and had not been hooked up in all that time and KN4UNA, P.J., said it arced when he turned it on, but ran fine afterward and he had left it here??with me just?recently to take a look at. Well, I hooked it up last week and ran it for 3 days in succession and I never got a arc, not one in all that time, and I could hear what sounded like the step start circuit slowly bring it up and the cooling fan speed increased a step at a time as it did. I tuned it up and am getting legal limit with 85 watts of drive so there's nothing wrong with it! I guess the arc happened just because it had set for so long and too it could have been some dust although it had one of those embroidered dust covers on it the entire time. The amp looks like brand new! Anyway, wanted to get back to you guys and thank you again for all the suggestions and replies to my original post.?
Very 73!
Cliff, KU4GW
