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[TowerTalk] Shunt Feed Capacitor for Tower

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Shunt Feed Capacitor for Tower
From: W8JI@contesting.com (Tom Rauch)
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 18:50:46 -0500
 In an earlier message, Tom warned against this problem and suggested
> modeling the voltage across a small load placed at the top of the
> tower as a check on the voltages to be expected. 

You can either place a very *high* resistance load there, or a 
current source set to *zero* amperes.

Either will work.

Look at the voltage across the load or the source voltage in the 
appropriate data menu to see the voltage difference across the 
insulator.  

73, Tom W8JI
W8JI@contesting.com 

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