Thread: Neat Wires
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Unread 01-04-2007, 14:49
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Re: Neat Wires

It looks like a lot of equipment I work on. Please note the layer of dust on everything, indicating that it has been in service for quite some time. Note the wire colors in use on the two capacitors, one with red and black and one with blue and red, indicating that there is a positve power supply and a negative power supply. The other rectifier is just out of the frame on the left. In addition the power resistors shown are likely either bleeders for the caps or inrush current limiting resistors that are switched out a few seconds after the power is applied by one of the relays in the picture. Other interesting things to note are the meter shunts just above the two large fuses. A shunt is essentially a very samll resistor that is placed in parallel with an ammeter, to directly read a large current. Although it is hard to tell exactly what device this is, transmitters take on the same look. If this is a transmitter, it is either a very low power device or just the control cabinet.
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