[Amps] Should a blower run after amp shutdown?

[Mitch Cox]

Before you 2 get into an electronic pissing contest over a constant voltage transformer please read the subject line. The gentleman asked if you should run a blower after amp shut down. Noooo he was not talking about (chest poked out here) 25kw transmitters or triac controlled 3CX10,000 tubes. He asked a simple question that has nothing to do with a constant voltage transformer or an AC moving coil meter. Instead of hi-jacking his question with this foolishness...start your own thread!
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Kirkby 
  To: DF3KV 
  Cc: amps at contesting.com 
  Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 6:07 PM
  Subject: Re: [Amps] Should a blower run after amp shutdown?


  On 3 June 2011 14:14, DF3KV <df3kv at t-online.de> wrote:
  > I never saw that happen with a constant voltage transformer (transducer).
  > Are you sure yours is based on transformer/choke and not an inverter?
  >
  > However, how do you measure AC with a moving coil meter?
  >
  > 73
  > Peter, DJ7WW

  My understanding was the constant voltage transformers basically
  saturated the core, which limits the output voltage. If so, then they
  would indeed produce a rather distorted waveform, as the core would be
  non-linear.

  Dave
  >
  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: amps-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces at contesting.com] On
  > Behalf Of John G3UUT
  >
  > Another caution, this time about constant voltage transformers. I had
  > one of these and tried to use it to stabilise the mains to a signal
  > generator to improve drift. It sort of worked but the main problem with
  > it was that it distorted the mains waveform quite badly, sufficiently so
  > that a normal moving coil meter read very inaccurately
  >
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