{"id":5843,"date":"2012-11-29T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=5843"},"modified":"2023-04-09T12:08:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T16:08:27","slug":"oh-damn-una-parte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/11\/oh-damn-una-parte\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, damn: Una Parte"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Guess what caught fire this time?\u00a0 It’s this thing, which has become the newest piece in my burned-up shit collection:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BE FM30A IPA regulator board<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If you give up and are totally flummoxed, this is the IPA power supply regulator for a BE FM35A transmitter.\u00a0 Here it is in better days when it was actually working.\u00a0 The IPAs are in pull-out drawers on the right side of the transmitter cabinet, below the FX-30 exciter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BE FM35A transmitter, on air<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Said transmitter is aging not so gracefully, as it turns 26 this year.\u00a0 There does seem to be a finite life to transmitting equipment, something that should be kept in mind when planning out next year’s capital expense budgets.\u00a0 Regardless of all that, this event naturally occurred the day after Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good news, and there is always good news, we have many spare IPA regulators and PA modules in the shop ready to go.  Upon investigation, there were numerous other problems with this transmitter, which have been or will be addressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guess what caught fire this time?\u00a0 It’s this thing, which has become the newest piece in my burned-up shit collection: If you give up and are totally flummoxed, this is the IPA power supply regulator for a BE FM35A transmitter.\u00a0 Here it is in better days when it was actually working.\u00a0 The IPAs are in … Continue reading Oh, damn: Una Parte<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-5843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-tech-stuff","tag-fm-transmitters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5843"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11481,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5843\/revisions\/11481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}