I removed the transistors and cleaned up everything. It looks like they’re all IRF520s
Hmmm...Not sure if Occam's Razor is broken or another alert is beginning to flash...
Here's your board number
Since General Lees' and the like are under the Galaxyh/RCI umbrella, you might want to try there or at least go to CBTricks.com and see if Galaxy has the board for you and work accordingly.
Seen that tape before - just not sure where ... on YT.?..
It's not right but, it's exactly like the builder intended because these are not transistors designed with RF stages in mind. In those cases you would have a lower power, higher gain transistor designed for the driver, and something more robust as the final, perhaps having a lower gain. Today, you get repurposed switch mode power supply transistors, being misused as linear RF transistors and they are horribly unreliable as a result. No reputable manufacturer would be caught dead using the junk they put in the back end of CB's today.
It's not right but, it's exactly like the builder intended because these are not transistors designed with RF stages in mind. In those cases you would have a lower power, higher gain transistor designed for the driver, and something more robust as the final, perhaps having a lower gain. Today, you get repurposed switch mode power supply transistors, being misused as linear RF transistors and they are horribly unreliable as a result. No reputable manufacturer would be caught dead using the junk they put in the back end of CB's today.[/QUOTE
It’s my friends radio, he had someone supposedly put new finals in it so I wasn’t sure if he installed the wrong ones. He also put a voltage regulator in with no heat sink grease, the side of the radio was getting so hot you could barely touch it and by that time the radio would flicker on and off.
It’s crazy the number of people that think these type of radios are any good.... I mean they are complete trash! As soon as you touch one thing, something else falls apart. It’s like they put the damn things together with hot glue and toothpicks!
