Dear Dan,
It might be wise to find out if there is a breakdown both in the power
supply section and in the RF deck before powering up with tubes
and drive.
Yank the tubes and disconnect the sections of the power supply.
Use care.
Measure the anode transformer secondary voltage and verify
the absence of shorted or open HV rectifiers with a DMM.
Carefully verify the anode HV chain.
Use a piece of red silicon rubber under the new plate choke
to prevent easy arc paths.
See if your plate blocker cap is still good.
See if your choke's cold-end bypass cap is still good, too.
Check the reflector for all advice messages.
Hal Mandel
W4HBM
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I recently had an amp failure. Upon inspection, I found remnants of an
arc between the bottom of the plate choke and chassis - which had
jumped substantially across an insulator. In the Ten-Tec Centurion
amplifier, the plate choke is positioned immediately adjacent to the
internal fan which blows across the choke and tubes.
The insulator between the choke and chassis was melted as well and my
initial thought is that a critter had gotten itself across the chokes
HV winding and chassis. I have a replacement choke and insulator and
am readying to replace them. My question is, before I turn the amp on
after component replacement, should I look for something else or is
there concurrence that my suspicions have merit?
The original incident happened while transmitting.
Amp: Ten-Tec Centurion
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