{"id":7419,"date":"2013-12-18T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=7419"},"modified":"2023-03-29T13:53:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T17:53:45","slug":"failed-high-voltage-contactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2013\/12\/failed-high-voltage-contactor\/","title":{"rendered":"Failed High Voltage Contactor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This contactor was used to replace the Furnas contactor installed as original equipment when the transmitter was manufactured in 1986.\u00a0 Furnas is no longer in business, thus the ABB A145-30 was substituted. It was purchased directly from Broadcast Electronics for an FM35A transmitter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABB A145-30 contactor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was installed about 18 months ago and has been in nearly continuous use since.  The broken white plastic housing surrounds the contactor coil and is responsible for pushing and holding down the contact fingers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"ABB<\/a>
ABB A145-30 contactor coil cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Looks like the coil is running too hot and damaging the plastic. This resulted in a failure of the contactor to make and no high voltage to the transmitter PA.\u00a0 Obviously a problem.\u00a0 I spoke to BE about this and they did not have a good answer.\u00a0 Actually, what they said was “That contactor is rated for 220 amps,” which is true enough. The only thing that I can think of is the coil is rated for 208 volts and the transmitter is connected to a 240-volt delta service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new contactor was ordered and installed yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will investigate the coil voltages further, but for now, the 27-year-old transmitter remains on the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Broadcast<\/a>
Broadcast Electronics FM35A<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This contactor was used to replace the Furnas contactor installed as original equipment when the transmitter was manufactured in 1986.\u00a0 Furnas is no longer in business, thus the ABB A145-30 was substituted. It was purchased directly from Broadcast Electronics for an FM35A transmitter: It was installed about 18 months ago and has been in nearly … Continue reading Failed High Voltage Contactor<\/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],"tags":[202,256],"class_list":["post-7419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-be-35a","tag-fm-transmitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7419","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=7419"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11311,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7419\/revisions\/11311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}