[TMC] PRogress report No. 3?

[roy.morgan at nist.gov]

Quoting telegrapher at att.net:

>.... The transmitter was designed for 24/7 duty 
> so how do i as a ham with maybe once a week operation treat them?

Make sure they are well "cooked in" before you run them.. once they run well,
just run them from time to time.  If you take them out of the power supply and
put them on their sides, go back to a long warmup the first time on.

>  Is a 15 minute warm-up time adequate and will just applying primary power for

> the filaments be considered adequate for the warm-up period? 

Yes. Yes. 

I don't 
> want the transmitter setting here running 24/7 when i'm not even going 
> to be around it for periods of time.
 
No need for that.  

Roy



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