[BC] Boring transmitters

[Chuck Lakaytis]

When we replaced a Continental 10 KW tube AM transmitter with a Nautel XL 
12, the power bill went down about 55 percent.  That included the fact that 
we had to put some heating in the transmitter building to keep the building 
warm in the winter.

Pretty impressive savings, especially when the power costs are 38 cents/KWH.

Chuck Lakaytis
Director of Engineering
Alaska Public Broadcasting, Inc.
135 Cordova Street
Anchorage, AK 99501
907 277 6300
907 277 6359 FAX
907 301 4339 Cell
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Cason" <scott at lagrange-com.com>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 12:53 PM
Subject: [BC] Boring transmitters


>>>*Well, my BTA1M is actually fairly reliable. I've not yet had a single
> minute of downtime in 5 months other then human error.*
>
> I have a BTA1R as a back up in Louisville.  Do you realize how much
> power you are wasting with running that old, inefficient transmitter?
> I'll give you an example.  Recently one of my clients Bauer 707 went
> belly up.  It's repairable, however it wasn't coming back on the air
> within a week so I convinced him to purchase a new Nautel J1000
> transmitter.  His power bill went from $400 watts a month to $80!
> That's a savings of $320 a month.  And that's not counting having to run
> the air conditioning units at full blast to keep the Bauer cool.  Just
> on the power bill alone the Nautel will pay for itself in 3 years.  This
> is not taking into account the two sets of tubes he was going through in
> a year because the Bauer was feeding into a very, VERY poor match on the
> antenna.
>
> It's not IF you can afford to replace the RCA, it's a matter of you not
> being able to afford NOT to replace the RCA.  The law of averages will
> catch up to you soon, and you will have down time with the RCA.  And it
> will be big downtime.
>
> Scott Cason
> LaGrange Communications
> www.lagrange-com.com
> (877)265-9773
> (502)213-0024
>
>
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