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73, ron wn3vaw
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Harpole <k4vud@hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 10:46 PM
To: dx-chat@njdxa.org
Subject: [DX-CHAT] fire danger in amp
I just had a scare.... After a 6 month of being off, I turned on my Ten Tec
Titan (the first version) and it blew the fuses with a big arc in the amp
box. Of course, I put in new fuses and turned it on again (without checking
for interior faults--first mistake) thinking it was an arc in the final
tank, maybe. With new fuses, I turned it on again.
This time a huge pop and flash in the power supply box (separate from the
amp box), smoke, smell of burning, AND A FIRE INSIDE THE POWER SUPPLY ! The
fire showed real blaze inside for about a minute and then lots of smoke came
out.
The point of my story is that I had the power supply sitting on a piece of
cardboard on top of a wall-to-wall carpet, and it was under my bench in a
tight spot with a very heavy rig in a cardboard box in front of it. Morale
is that if it had burned a bit longer, it may have caught my house on fire
and it was placed so that jerking it out was very difficult. I did get it
out with great difficulty and put it outside on the concrete deck. I do
have a master AC kill switch which I turned off fast, but ......
Somthing to think about when placing radios in hard-to-reach spots. WOW.
73
Charles Harpole
k4vud@hotmail.com
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