[Amps] Fuses
donroden at hiwaay.net
donroden at hiwaay.net
Sat Jan 8 06:00:38 PST 2011
>> Where pray tell do you get a hydraulic breaker?
All the commercial AMs and FMs used silicone-dampened AC overloads.
All the AC current ran through a five or six turn high current relay that was
( at rated current ) almost ready to pull the normally closed contact open.
A surge or over current would open the contact which opened the
holding contactor ahead of the overload.
I took over maintenence of one transmitter that was always randomly
shutting down. One day while looking for parts in the transmitter
room, I found an unopened bottle of silicone oil, and checked the
overload and it was dry as the day it was shipped. I filled the
overload with the silicone and the transmitter was more forgiving of
random spikes. The AC overloads were more to protect the HV
Transformer in case a rectifier stack shorted..
Don W4DNR
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