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[TowerTalk] Shunt Feed Capacitor for Tower

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Shunt Feed Capacitor for Tower
From: [email protected] (Tom Rauch)
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 18:50:46 -0500
 In an earlier message, Tom warned against this problem and suggested
> modeling the voltage across a small load placed at the top of the
> tower as a check on the voltages to be expected. 

You can either place a very *high* resistance load there, or a 
current source set to *zero* amperes.

Either will work.

Look at the voltage across the load or the source voltage in the 
appropriate data menu to see the voltage difference across the 
insulator.  

73, Tom W8JI
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