<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Pavel Milanes (CO7WT) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pavelmc@gmail.com" target="_blank">pavelmc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><br><p>There is a know issue with this radios about this: usually the
kenwood interface for this radios take power from the radio not
from the PC, and the power is taken from the same rail the LCD
leds are powered. <br>
</p>
<p>For some reason with time (or a mic cable short) a medium power
resistor burn out in the main board and get the front panel
without +12V, that not a problem to the normal operation as it
works on +5v, but the backlight gone off and the programmer has no
power to feed from and always fails to operate.</p>
<p>Can you check that please?<br>
</p><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Will this still be an issue if I am using a newer USB programming cable? Would it not get it's power from the USB?<br></div></div>