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[AMPS] Relays hanging up

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Subject: [AMPS] Relays hanging up
From: aa4hp@titustek.com (Hank Phillips)
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 09:03:00 -0400
When would you want to do that?

73,
H
At 08:50 AM 8/12/00 -0400, you wrote:
>How bout when you transmit from the exciter through the unenergized relay
>(like when the amp is off or in standby)?
>
>Regards, Mike N4NT@chartertn.net
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Hank Phillips" <aa4hp@titustek.com>
>To: <amps@contesting.com>
>Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 8:21 AM
>Subject: Fwd: Re: [AMPS] Relays hanging up
>
>
>|
>| Since the same contact surfaces are used to handle transmitter power they
>| are "cleaned" by the higher current during transmit.  In an amp, different
>| sides of the contact are used in transmit versus receive, so the receive
>| side never sees the "benefit" of high current cleaning.
>|


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