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smoke escaping from resistors
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Arran,

I would understand if those #61 and 62 smoked, things being the way you explain. This would take a lot, as the resistors are probably 2-3 watters at least, and the voltage without load, I take it, about 400V or so, and so between the two of them they will dissipate 2W, which is far from making them smoke.

But #7 smoking.....removing the field coil actually removes the power from just about anything, except from res. #22 / 21, which is hi-resistance, and DC-wise foes to one of the Det.osc. grids, so there is no DC path.
No current flows anywhere anymore.
How does that makes #7 smoke, I fail to see, unless, there is some short somewhere, or something else.

A long shot - shorts within coils and within the tuning capacitor may do it, but if this is true, then this would be a good day to go and buy a lottery ticket.


Messages In This Thread
smoke escaping from resistors - by raydog - 03-10-2012, 05:13 PM
RE: smoke escaping from resistors - by rghines1 - 03-10-2012, 07:56 PM
RE: smoke escaping from resistors - by Arran - 03-10-2012, 08:21 PM
RE: smoke escaping from resistors - by raydog - 03-11-2012, 03:33 PM
RE: smoke escaping from resistors - by raydog - 03-12-2012, 08:32 AM
RE: smoke escaping from resistors - by 7estatdef - 03-12-2012, 04:42 PM
RE: smoke escaping from resistors - by rghines1 - 03-12-2012, 05:24 PM
RE: smoke escaping from resistors - by Arran - 03-13-2012, 06:54 PM
RE: smoke escaping from resistors - by codefox1 - 03-12-2012, 04:50 PM
RE: smoke escaping from resistors - by raydog - 03-12-2012, 07:13 PM
RE: smoke escaping from resistors - by raydog - 03-14-2012, 07:39 PM
RE: smoke escaping from resistors - by morzh - 03-17-2012, 06:41 PM
RE: smoke escaping from resistors - by Arran - 03-17-2012, 10:36 PM
RE: smoke escaping from resistors - by raydog - 03-18-2012, 10:20 AM
RE: smoke escaping from resistors - by morzh - 03-18-2012, 11:20 AM
RE: smoke escaping from resistors - by Arran - 03-19-2012, 12:29 AM
RE: smoke escaping from resistors - by morzh - 03-19-2012, 01:51 PM
RE: smoke escaping from resistors - by raydog - 03-18-2012, 02:55 PM
RE: smoke escaping from resistors - by raydog - 03-20-2012, 01:06 PM
RE: smoke escaping from resistors - by morzh - 03-20-2012, 09:28 PM



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