[BC] Transmitter Safety

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

Nothing was ON when I started. Furthermore there
were not any "breakers," instead dedicated fuse-boxes
with handles on the outside, clearly marked ON/OFF.

It was when this box magically turned itself ON, that
all the disabled relays in the transmitter turned on
the HV.

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Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
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 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "tg at btsg.com" <tg at btsg.com>
> My question is, Why were you reconnecting plate leads with the transmitter 
> breaker on in the first
> place?  Just curious...
> 
> 
> While reconnecting the leads to the plate transformer,
> that had somehow been cut off, I was suddenly
> paralyzed with my hands wrapped around HV
> terminals. I had to use my legs to rip myself free,
> breaking apart transformer terminals in the process.
> As I was laying on the floor, trying to get my breath,
> Joe Baublis was prancing around like an Indian
> doing a war-dance, laughing about it. Baublis
> had disabled (shorted out) the door interlocks
> and blocked the bias relay so that the plates
> could come on, even without filaments, drive,
> or bias.
>