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>In a message dated 08/29/2000 06:38:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>G3SEK@ifwtech.com writes:
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> It depends why you want to do this. If it's to check that nothing blows
> up if the supply is shorted, you only need to do it once or twice and it
> doesn't need anything fancy.
> >>
>TO ME THIS LIKE DRIVING UR NEW LEXUS INTO A BRICK WALL TO SEE IF UR AIR BAGS
>WORK!!!
Sure, that would be a stupid thing for a car user to do. But you have
just *manufactured* a power supply, so you do exactly what car
manufacturers do - a crash test.
If it works OK, all it costs you is maybe a new fuse. If it doesn't work
- for example if the surge resistor flashes over - you want to know,
because it might cost you a new tube.
> "DONT TROUBLE, TROUBLE, UNTIL TROUBLE TROUBLES YOU"
To which I'd offer: "Train hard, fight easy."
73 from Ian G3SEK Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
http://www.ifwtech.com/g3sek
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