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On 9 Feb 2003 at 20:35, Greg Merritt wrote: > > Ah! Thanks to all who pointed out the obvious, namely, > removing the cover from the radio. :) I saw this: > > http://home.earthlink.net/~gmerrittsprint01/inside_playtape.jpg > > The blue wire most definitely powers the dial's lamp. You > can see it snaking down behind the tape drive motor toward the dial. Okay, blue is the dial lamp. Sometimes this was switched and sometimes not (your case.) > That leaves black, brown, and brown-with-stripe. The 2 browns are probably the halves of a zip cord. Either way I'm pretty sure that they are for the speaker. It would be common for one of them to be grounded. > Brown-with-strip is clearly soldered to the chassis -- ground. > > The black wire goes to the... transformer, is it? there in > the upper right corner of the unit as pictured -- the component to > the right of the pcb. Sharing this lead on the transformer is a thin > black wire that goes to the power/volume switch, the switch on the > right in the picture. (The radio is upside-down, that is, the cover > I removed was from the bottom.) Also sharing this lead on the > transformer is a capacitor that runs to ground. Is this for noise? The "transformer" is probably a choke, which together with the capacitor keeps ignition noise out of the radio circuits. -- Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/