well was digging around and found out this guy
skipp025@yahoo.com
was making better regulartor boards some time back...sent him an email but
no response.
I need to do some more digging...read an article on that many moons ago
online.
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From: "Ron Notarius W3WN" <wn3vaw@verizon.net>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 6:12 PM
To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Station power supply??
If you find out anything about the regulator boards, I'd appreciate it if
you'd let me know.
A couple of years ago, the regulator board blew in my RS-20A. (Well, I
guess after over 15 years of more-or-less continual duty, it was bound to
happen.) Larry K3VX was kind enough to look at it for me, but couldn't
get
the parts.
Astron will sell a new board... for about $40 plus shipping, IIRC.
However,
I was able to snag at a hamfest an RS-35A for about $30, so I never
bothered
to order the board! Still, I really need to do something with that '20A,
other than let it collect dust on Larry's workbench...
73, ron w3wn
-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of denton
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 1:55 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Station power supply??
you are right om...did google the 35M astrons and they appear to be the
better ones of the lot.
Will investigate upgrading regulator boards thou...
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From: "Dennis R Baumgarte" <ae2ee@rochester.rr.com>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 10:33 AM
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Station power supply??
On 09/03/2012 13:09, denton wrote:
A bit off topic but...
I am thinking of revamping my station's power supply setup.
I have an Orion, Omni VII, 2 dual band uhf/vhf rigs and assorted item
that use 13.8 vdc for running and/or charging.
I currently have 2-Astron RS-35M and 1 20 amp Astron power supplies.
I also am running a 3000 watt ups with a ton of backup batteries....this
feeds just about everything in the shack.
What I am thinking of doing is eliminating the above Astrons, getting a
50 amp plus power strip to fire the station and various sundires, or
getting a series of switching power supplies.
Qth is very quiet on man made noise.
I am aiming for efficiency, with no rfi from power supply setups, from
what I have read, the switchers are very efficient, but still generate a
bit of rf hash....I might be wrong on this.
Any suggestions or observations?
Thanks in advance de Denton, WB7TDG
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I would keep both RS-35 sell the 20 amp and still stay away from
switching power supplies. Using one 50 amp power supply is not a good
idea;for if it goes down then your out better to have 2 strips running
with the 30 amp supplies than just the one. If one goes down you still
can
run sum of your equipment and be on the air.
Dennis AE2EE
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