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Saturday, July 25, 2020

Beomaster 4400 Type 2419: Personal Project: Preamplifier board and FM boards

The remaining boards requiring some recapping restoration are the preamplifier board and the FM boards of the Beomaster 4400.

Again, the previous post here, show the before state of the boards.

On the preamplifier board I also replaced the six, single-turn trimmers for the Phono, Tape 1 and Tape 2 source inputs.

Here is the preamplifier board after the restoration work -






















Here are the three FM boards (FM1: Tuner, FM2: IF Section , FM3: Stereo Decoder and Indicator).
There is one 10uF, 10V tantalum capacitor in the FM1: Tuner board. I measured it and it is right on 10uF so I left that capacitor alone for now.

































...actually that photo is a little premature.  The board still needs a 1uF and 0.47uF capacitors as shown added in this next photo.



Now for the big step of reinstalling the boards and setting up the first power on test of this Beomaster.

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