[QuadList] The Capacitor Chronicles

[C. Park Seward]

Doug

Yes, with the proper load you can bench test it. I also gave extension  
cables you can borrow.

Best,
Park

C. Park Seward
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On Nov 28, 2009, at 7:45 AM, dbingley at bmts.com wrote:

> 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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>
>
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