[ARC5] Receiver Voltages.

[Dennis Monticelli]

Dave,

A slow honorable death as the supplied voltage becomes impaired makes sense
to me as a design goal.

Dennis AE6C

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 8:20 AM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Monticelli" <
> dennis.monticelli at gmail.com>
>
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Receiver Voltages.
>
>   I respect the original designers, but this is still somewhat of a mystery
>> to me.  I'm sure they had a good reason.
>>
>
> I have a theory about this.  I arrived at it while doing
> research on Low-B+ with the Command Sets.
>
> I discovered that the communications receivers and the
> transmitters and the modulators will all work and provide
> a properly-modulated signal out with nothing but 24 VDC
> on all the A and B busses.  It's "headphone" audio and
> sub-Watt levels, to be sure, but they do work.
> That cannot be said for any other transmitter or
> modulator I've investigated.
>
> I can't prove it, but I don't believe this is some
> sort of "happy accident."  The engineers at A.R.C.
> were brilliant men.   I think they intended for the thing
> to work at some level when the dynamotors were either
> damaged or there wasn't enough battery left to run them.
>
> Like I said; I can't prove it, but I don't believe the
> "happy accident" deal.
>
> 73 DE Dave AB5S
>
>
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