dead sovereign xs-2 pro

Pretty much.  I try to use Gorilla Glue...

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Hi again Sov.

Sorry hav'nt replied sooner.
Did reply to you in length with the photo's i posted but lost it all, ended up with those duplicated photo's posted instead .
Basically was about the small hoard you found, must have been a lot of stoppages on that short walk.
You into ham radio too, can see the transcievers there 
Full on bench set up  nice, have had a reasonable set of new and salvaged parts and bought and built equipment myself over the years, but become disenchanted at times and get rid of things.
If i need a part occasionally now i usually buy it because it usually is readily cheaply available here.
From all the excellent information you've posted i'm sure there's a reasonable chance of a successful repair soon
and thank you for the very kind offer of sending parts or fixing it over there if i ca'nt do it here.
For now i'll look around the area of the board you mentioned, when i get the time, I hope this has'nt put you out too much and i hav'nt got bored with the repair myself at all, but can understand if this thread is getting worn too thin now and can contact you more directly on the email if thats ok.
From the power supply you put together, pretty much proves like you said it was an ok for its time, so might be better to change it out for regulators, i wouldn't mind the split battery system, good idea i reckon, if there's only an uneven draw to worry about. Like the coffee cup in your photo, by the way, very colourful,
For now i'll just put the Mark Stuart PI back together, have recently consolidated the enclosure and got the laptop cells ready for the waist pack and bungy cord lead.
Like to says thanks too,to the others contributing on this thread that i hav'nt been able to reply to due to too many comitments at present, in between play fighting with my 3 young boys and taking on a new aspect of business installing solar panels.



 
   



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Why is that when you post a file the site does'nt reckonise or try and drag and drop you can lose an hour's worth of post 
Fixed detector by the way Thanks Frank will put another post together in a few hours, hope to not loose it again.

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No GD 2 files posted were less than that about 200k though 1 was a WMA file of the sov tones, as soon as i tried to pop it into the post bye bye an hour long post . The other day i tried to drag and drop a photo same deal, lot of wasted time  .
Oh well hope this one goes ok.
Managed to get the detector fixed, the simplest fault causing the drama. No fuse protection to the reversal diode.
The other day I tested the +12V, from the battery connector on the small front panel board which runs through the volume/on/off switch and ribbon cable to the main board. I noticed it was a few ohms between these points which was varying slightly didnt think too much about it as the boards are very highly lacquered to protect them.
I did try to get the pcb off the front panel but nearly cracked the pcb so gave up, had another go today phew!!
success the pot spindle holes are tight as, prised it off, blown track (mixed emoticon) embarrasment,happy, wiser.
Photo of area enclosed.
Sov the supply like you have painstakingly proved, could probably quite easily be modernised with regulators or a simple small switchmode and fuse protection to build out design faults and might be a good mod for anyone playing with supply alternatives.   

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  Sov, no the fault was just the track hence the ,feeling small, sorry, simple but difficult to get to and probably a path through low impedance in an inductor through me,rest of the circuitry now seems to be fully functional, all up and running, suggest sovereign's with this reversal diode for crowbar protection should have a simple fuse backing it, standard electronics, especially for those playing with alternative supplies, like me 
Do you think your issue that damaged yours might have been overvoltage Sov?
If you need the part numbers and id numbers for that area you were referring to i can get some more detail for you ?

The Q7 is a BS170 should just be able to see the board marking in the jpg 12
and U2 looks like TLD62CP cant find data must be a TLO62CP.
 
U24 sorry not U2

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