[Boatanchors] Tube radio and power outages

[Peter Loron]

I would install appropriate capacity UPS systems. This will not only prevent damage from momentary drops or brownouts, but will allow you time to shut things down cleanly.

-Pete

On Sep 30, 2013, at 12:59 PM, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:

> If the momentary flickers (leading edge, not trailing) isn't accompanied by 
> a spike, then the simplest and probably best solution is a latching relay.  
> It can be either electro-mechanical or solid state.  And it can be done in 
> each device or probably simpler and cheaper if you have several rigs to 
> protect, to the circuit they are all plugged into.  Any time that the line drops 
> out low enough or long enough to drop out the relay, it would kill the 
> circuit.  The start method can be a START electrical pushbutton or simply a 
> non-metalic rod to manually close the relay for START.  It will latch itself so 
> long as the power is on.
> 
> In a message dated 09/30/2013 13:22:22 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> foureyes779 at gmail.com writes: 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Just wanted to get an overall opinion of the best way to protect my tube
>> radio gear from power flickers and outages. We have power outages several
>> times a year during the winter months, and I was concerned that this may
>> cause damage to my tube radio gear (Johnson Ranger II &Hammarlund HQ-150).
>> Usually before the power goes out it will cycle on and off for an hour or
>> so, and it seems that this rapid on and off would not be good for the 
>> radio
>> gear.
>> 
>> Thanks es 73 W7DTG Don
> 
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