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Anyone got a Linn Kudos tuner? Question

Bought a dead Kudos tuner(no remote) and Linn was nice enough to supply schematics for the unsupported product. Fixed the dead aspect by troubleshooting the defective muting circuitry. The other issue is that the display reverts to blank but for two bars after a minute or so. Touching any function key restores the display and it stays up as long as you are doing key operations. My downloaded user manual makes no mention of this. Anyone? Otherwise reception seems fine.
w8aaz
w8aaz OP
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Well glad to hear that. SO mine is not the only one that does that. Not really a problem but since it is not mentioned in their downloadable manual, I was wondering. Reading some old forum threads I googled, it may be that the tuner at some point went to a different power supply but mine has straightforward linear supplies with a rather hulking toroid transformer off to the side. And a voltage selector on the bottom, and a bothersome PAL antenna jack. But adapters are cheap online.
tomnothing
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Does anyone have a schematic they can share of the Kudos? Mine is behaving strangely - no output, doesn't scan, but otherwise seems to power up OK. Cheers
ant_61
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@ tomnothing
i have the same issue, did you get it sorted ?
tomnothing
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Hi ant, sadly no. I ended up taking it to a technician I use from time to time, but they had no luck either. One thing I did notice was that the signal strength indication (which you get to by pressing one of the buttons a couple of times) was reading 50. This led me to suspect and replace the rf mixer under the shielded can, but that didn't improve things. So, for the moment the box is sitting there unrepaired. I would love to get it going as I have a matching amp and Karik CDP, so do let me know if you make progress with yours. Good luck! 
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