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You are doing great. SSB should be doing its 10+ watts. AM I think it was doing the 4 watts deadkey swinging up to 10. I think bringing down the AM carrier, it does compromise the watts some on the top end, but your amp will be fine with that. For the sake of, dont keep that radio in extreme...

I suppose you can get a resistor and a capacitor to help with that, but I felt that the audio was distorted after doing it. What worked better for me was stacking 4 diodes in series near the AM transformer. Otherwise, here is a guide to do it with a capacitor and a resistor near the final...

Looking at the fuse, it went through some heat stress.... Can those Toshiba finals take a beating like that?!?! I figured they would of burned up from the heat if a small power supply was being used.

Thanks to your advice in the past, that was my guess that it was driven wayyyy too hot. Maybe feeding it with 30+ watts? I will go to the hardware store tomorrow to see if I can source some for this amp. Appreciate it. :)

Going to order some. The two that are nuked are 100 ohms, and the two top ones closer are 33 ohms. (For some reason on the right-top on the selector in the picture, that one should be exactly like the other one left of it with the 2 bands of orange. The other picture of a Magnum 2000 on here...

Took my time and it worked out... :) (Please ignore the nasty bits of dust/crumbs/flux splatter from the amp. I cleaned it all up, but just took the pictures right quick to post.

OceanGate.... :D

I looked, and the pot says AM Power next to it. :) You will see it.

Here is that clarifier unlock guide I posted. (On the picture with the two small white wired clipped, ONLY do one.... I was curious if either could be clipped and it still yielded the same results. The video on youtube tried having you remove SMD components on the board which was not needed...

There is an adjustment I believe on the top-righthand side of the board near the back next to that transformer. Just be very very careful as those small tiny potentiometers can easily break if done wrong. You can turn down that AM deadkey. :) (My wife's 980SSB I have already unlocked the...

Thank you everyone for your input. I like all the suggestions.

If I understood correctly, if you drive the amp with a bigger radio like a 10 meter radio. (One doing 30+ watts.), that would cook those resistors nice n toasty. Good eye on the missing screw. I did not even dare to key up long at all.. I was just after if any kind of power output was happening...

Unsure what oscilloscopes most prefer these days. A couple of my friends have that Rygol branded O-Scope. They went as far as to modifying the firmware to unlock a ton of feature on it. I don't have the exact model on hand, but may be a good candidate for ya.

Hard to say just for how long they were burning stuff up... But as of now it is outputting power on each setting, just not as much as the Palomar Skipper 350 is. For now just going to run the Palomar until I can gather enough parts and information to get the Magnum 2000 back in working order.

Hello, The two amps came in today about half hour ago, and to be sure one of the amps wasnt too rusted inside, I had a peek inside, and by the looks of it, maybe it was fed with a bit too much power? Some of the resistors near the power level selector have been crisped up pretty well. I was...

I checked into a net yesterday... It was on 16 LSB. The gentlemen said they do it every Thursday at 7PM Central. Mother Nature ran into the night so was able to check on in.

Merry Christmas everyone! I spent the day with the family and enjoyed the time. I barely got to my computer as of now lol. Least to post Merry Christmas. Hope everyone's Christmas was great.

Maybe next year I can bring back more of my radios from storage including that 23 channel Midland SSB. :) Someone at the time did etch into the chrome above the radio with their callsign, and I always leave stuff like that left on any radios I get. Unique history to each one.

I will let you know once I get around to unloading that radio... :) I better sleep. Christmas comes soon lol! Good night! 73! Sorry TM86 if you got blown up with notifications lol. :)

Midland 79-892... Funny you mention the 13-892. I still have that beauty coming up on 15+ years now. Found that bad boy in Manhattan Kansas at a thrift store for a whopping $10. :)