[QuadList] The Capacitor Chronicles

[dbingley at bmts.com]

Thanks everyone for your input. After the first 
post I was trying to figure out where to get a 
30 A Variac, then Don explained that the 1200 
has distribuuted power supplies (which also 
explains why they have all those electrolytic 
caps all over the machine. Duh - I should have 
figured that out in the first place.I'd better 
get a set of manuals and start reading! 
I took a look at the capacitor values of the 
various sub-assemblies and it looks like the 
Colortec, Amtec and Velcomp have similar power 
supplies. 
Although it seems tht the caps should be OK I 
think  that I'll try bringing up each sub-
assembly separately with a  Variac just to be on 
the safe side.
I have a very good reason for doing so: Everyone 
at the radio station already thinks I'm nuts for 
dragging home these beasts - Comments range 
from "have you noticed we only transmit audio" 
to "Nice time machine Doug." If the first time I 
power them up there is a loud bang and/or lotsa 
smoke I'll never live it down. 
BTW I never worked in engineering,although 
before starting at a TV station I had a job as a 
bench tech.and worked on small format VTR's. I 
started as a lowly MCR Op and later a tape 
editor. It seems surreal that I'm now dragging 
out the power supplies, cards and poking around 
in the back etc. I have this guilty feelig that 
somone from maintenance is going to put in a 
grievance..but this sure is fun!

Doug

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