[TenTec] OMNI-VI & 961 AC Input and Temp. Meaurements

John Bohnovic bohnovic@bellsouth.net
Thu, 12 Dec 2002 21:24:56 -0500


Dave,

What does the asterisk after the heat sink temperatures represent?

73..de John/K4WJ

At 03:57 PM 12/11/02 -0500, Dave Bowker wrote:
>Here is some data that may shed light on the discussion dealing with 962 PS
>heatsink tempeature.  These tests were performed on an OMNI-VI Option 3 and
>961 power supply today.
>
>73, Dave, K1FK
>Fort Kent, ME
>~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>NOTE:  The VI Option 3 has the Ovenaire MC43-1G crystal oven master
>oscillator which is NOT powered up during times that the 961 PS is ON and
>the VI is OFF (Early production OMNI VI+ radios before the TCXO was
>incorporated maintained power to the oven when the VI+ POWER switch was in
>the OFF state).
>
>Temperature and AC current data taken with B&K Precision Model 390 DVM with
>Type K thermocouple probe attached to 961 heat sink at top of fin adjacent
>to Q1.  The VI was in the transmit mode for 10 minutes at 100 watts output
>into a dummy load, at which time the temperature stabilized at the reading
>indicated.  Output power was monitored with a Bird 43 wattmeter, 250 watt
>3-30 MHz slug and with 0% reflected power from a Bird #8141 dummy load.
>Relative humidity for all meaasurements was 35%.
>
>Test Parameter            961 Input (amps)    961 HS Temp
>
>961 OFF (ambient)        0.00                        16.0* C
>
>961 ON/VI OFF            0.30                        20.0* C
>
>961 ON/VI Recv            0.62                        27.0* C
>
>961 ON/VI Xmit            3.35                        61.5* C
>
>
>
>
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