Meltdown

After one of our clients had an FM station go off the air over the weekend, I investigated and found this:

Transformer melt down
Transformer meltdown

Looks like something one might find in the reactor room at Chernobyl or Fukushima.

Transformer melted down
Transformer melted down

This is at one of those sites with three phase open delta power.  Needless to say, the transformer is toast, perhaps the entire transmitter too.  This will be another fun transmitter-scrapping project.  I was thinking about this; over the last five years, I have scrapped at least ten to fifteen old tube transmitters.  The old tube types are going away fast, as are those that can still work on them.