-----Original Message-----
From: olinger@bellsouth.net [mailto:olinger@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 1:25 PM
To: jljarvis
Subject: Re: [Towertalk] sixpack relay problem
I can't post to the list from here.
>From how it sounds, the trouble might be in a resistive common or ground path.
>Should take an
ohmmeter from the "ground" side of the relay winding to the chassis and then to
the ground side of
the control box.
Guy. K2AV.
>
> From: "jljarvis" <jljarvis@adelphia.net>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Date: 2002/06/18 Tue PM 12:59:56 EDT
> To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Subject: [Towertalk] sixpack relay problem
>
>
> Privately, I observed that the most likely problem was
> IR drop, or a bad relay. Let me repeat it publicly:
>
> Even though the 'run' is only 3 feet, there is EITHER an
> IR drop somewhere in the circuit, or a bad relay. For all
> you know, the drop is IN the relay.
>
> Replace the relay.
>
> This isn't a design problem. Too many sixpacks, too many
> relays running reliably out there, for too many years.
>
> Jim Jarvis, N2EA
>
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