{"id":8586,"date":"2015-06-04T17:05:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T21:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=8586"},"modified":"2023-03-26T09:04:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T13:04:33","slug":"meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2015\/06\/meltdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After one of our clients had an FM station go off the air over the weekend, I investigated and found this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/transformer-melt-down.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/transformer-melt-down-650x488.jpg\" alt=\"Transformer melt down\" class=\"wp-image-8591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/transformer-melt-down-650x488.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/transformer-melt-down-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/transformer-melt-down-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/transformer-melt-down-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/transformer-melt-down-50x38.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/transformer-melt-down-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/transformer-melt-down.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Transformer meltdown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Looks like something one might find in the reactor room at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chernobyl_disaster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chernobyl<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fukushima<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/transformer-melted-down.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/transformer-melted-down-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"Transformer melted down\" class=\"wp-image-8592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/transformer-melted-down-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/transformer-melted-down-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/transformer-melted-down-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/transformer-melted-down-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/transformer-melted-down-38x50.jpg 38w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/transformer-melted-down.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Transformer melted down<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is at one of those sites with <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/02\/the-open-delta-three-phase-service\/\" target=\"_blank\">three phase open delta<\/a> power.\u00a0 Needless to say, the transformer is toast, perhaps the entire transmitter too.\u00a0 This will be another fun transmitter-scrapping project.\u00a0 I was thinking about this; over the last five years, I have scrapped at least ten to fifteen old tube transmitters.\u00a0 The old tube types are going away fast, as are those that can still work on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After one of our clients had an FM station go off the air over the weekend, I investigated and found this: Looks like something one might find in the reactor room at Chernobyl or Fukushima. This is at one of those sites with three phase open delta power.\u00a0 Needless to say, the transformer is toast, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2015\/06\/meltdown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meltdown<\/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":[21],"tags":[230,256,44],"class_list":["post-8586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-of-disaster","tag-electrical","tag-fm-transmitter","tag-utility-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586","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=8586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11207,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586\/revisions\/11207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}