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Old March 25th 09, 03:15 AM
Crescendo Crescendo is offline
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Originally Posted by Edward Knobloch View Post
Presume you mean an RCA signal generator type WA-44C.
If all you get on the output connector is 120 Hz hum,
that points to a bad electrolytic capacitor in the power supply.

Look for large tubular capacitors with ratings like 10uF or 20uF 250V
connected to the rectifiers.

If you put a digital multimeter across them, you should only read
a fraction of a volt on the a.c. volt scale,
and maybe 150V on the d.c. volt scale. If you read a high a.c. volt
value, the capacitor has dried out, and no longer works.
They are easy to replace.

73,
Ed Knobloch

Crescendo wrote:
I have an old WA-44C and I was going to use it for one of my science
projects. The problem is that when I connected my speaker coil to the
line frequency connectors and tried to change the frequency and such,
nothing changed. I tried every knob on it and nothing change at all,
the only thing that worked was the line frequency power output allowing
me to only increase the volume.

I was hoping that some of you might know how i might be able to fix
this.

If you are able to please help me. Thank you.



Ah thank you Edward, I'll try your suggestion.

Sorry about forgetting the specifics of the RCA Sine Wave generator and sorry to Colin as well.