I always liked the front panel circuit breaker on commercial equipment that
is a sure fire way to remove all power in the instrument, except the line going
to
the breaker from the external power cord.
73
Bill wa4lav
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From: Amps [amps-bounces@contesting.com] on behalf of Paul Christensen
[w9ac@arrl.net]
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 7:43 AM
To: amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] Working on my Darwin award
> "That's a good point. The answer IMO is to do the variac ramp up quickly,
say in about two seconds or so. That should give you time to watch the
line current and HV."
Or, simply jumper-bypass the step/start resistors during testing, as the
Variac is performing that function anyway.
Paul, W9AC
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