----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 11:38 AM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Help- PA Problem
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Niall > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >>The repairer should be able to say what has failed, my bet would be the >>mains transformer. > > Or hopefully just an internal fuse if the genny went low voltage and > hence higher current. > Might be worth scoping the genny output - if it's lost a pole and is producing half wave AC, I know from experience that transformers don't like that at all. (Technical bit - it was a dimmer using back to back thyristors, one of which went OC. Killed pinspot transformers very quickly.) I've always been a bit wary of running amps from small generators on the basis that the output waveform is often less than perfect. -- Niall
