Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier I - PRELIMINARY INSTRUCTIONS AND WARRANTY INFORMATION Please observe safety precautions when handling this unit. This equipment contains dangerous currents and high voltages. This manual is written as a general guide for those having previous knowledge and experience with this kind of equipment.
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Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier To claim your rights under this warranty: Contact the dealer or distributor where you prchased the unit. Describe the problem and ask if he has an easy solution. Dealers and Distributors are supplied with all the information about problems that may occur and usually they can repair the unit quicker than what the manufacturer could do.
Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier II - TUBE WARRANTY INSTRUCTIONS VARIAN POWER GRID PRODUCT LIMITED WARRANTY Varian products are warranted to be free from defects in workmanship and materials only. The warranty involves both calendar time and filament (or heather) operation time. Specifically involved are: time since the product was shipped from varian time since delivery to the user, and operation time.
R.V.R. ELETTRONICA S.p.a. shall not be responsible for injury or damage resulting from improper procedures or from the use of improperly trained or inexperienced personnel performing such tasks.
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Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier In case of emergency ensure that power has been disconnected.
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Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier TREATMET OF ELECTRICAL SHOCK 1) If victim is not responsive follow the A-B-C's of basic life support. PLACE VICTIM FLAT ON HIS BACK ON A HARD SURFACE A) AIRWAY...
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Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier FIRST-AID Personnel engaged in the installation, operation, maintenance or servicing of this equipment are urged to become familiar with first-aid theory and practices. The following information is not intended to be a complete first-aid procedure, it is brief and is only to be used as a reference. It is the duty of all personnel using the equipment to be prepared to give adequate Emergency First Aid and thereby prevent avoidable loss of life.
VJ5000-TE GENERAL DESCRIPTION MECHANICAL DESCRIPTION The VJ5000-TE is allocated in a 19" rack, 37HE, of which are free and can be used to insert an exciter, a receiver or any other equipment. Two analog instruments are placed on the hinged frontal panel (Fig. 1) with all other controls and commands. The rear panel (Fig. 2) hasn’t any connectors but only the air input for the cooling blower, completed with the air...
-10° to +50°C Umidity max 90%, Without condensing CHAPTER 2 ELECTRICAL DESCRIPTION INTRODUCTION This chapter describes accurately the VJ5000-TE electrical components. For an easy understanding, the equipment is been divided in modules, each of them is described completely as follows.
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Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier REF. DESCRIPTION MULTIMETER: Analog instrument for the measures of temperature, filament voltage and current, anode voltage and current and grid voltage. VOLTAGES SELECTOR: Voltages selector for the measures of the following.
Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier CHAPTER 3 EQUIPMENT INSTALLATION INTRODUCTION This chapter contains the necessary information for the installation and the preliminary checks of the VJ5000-TE amplifier. UNPACKING Remove the equipment from its packing, Verify that the unit that isn’t damaged during the transport.
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Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier MAIN TRANSFORMER SUPPORT SCREWS Once inserted the cart to the inside, to pass on the anterior part and to get off the plexiglass of protection and to lace the threads to the terminal board protection and to lace the threads of the terminal board (see drawings) with: n°...
Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier TUBE INSTALLATION F or the tube installation is necessary to execute the following procedure: Connect the power supply cable in the relative socket paying attention to exact position of the phases and neutral.
Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier EQUIPMENT SETTING AT WORK To set at work the amplifier VJ5000 it’s necessary to execute the following operations: The equipment is set for a mains voltage of 400 Vac (other on request), three phases with neutral.
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Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier Increase the driving power and then execute a new adjustment through the OUPUT TUNE and OUPUT LOAD commands until you have the maximum exciter output power. Using only the modulator is possible to reach an output power of 600-700 W (with valve 4CX5000).
Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier CHAPTER 4 TUBE MEASURES CARD CALIBRATION NOTICE Pay attention, this calibration is been executed initially on the final power amplifier during the checking test, only in case of card replacement, after that is been verified that is the cause of the equipment anomaly, is necessary to proceed to the calibration of the card as described later on.
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Before to proceed, check the test resistors values in according to the amplifier type that is used (in this case the type is VJ5000-TE that uses 4CX3500 tube, see as reference TABLE D). Since, the protections intervention on the equipment is set at 3.9 V, is necessary that at maximum voltage or current value of the tube corresponds to 3.9 V, to allow the protections...
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Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier Now, it’s necessary calibrate the voltage value nearest to zero using the following trimmers: P1 for VF P5 for IG1 P2 for IF P6 for VG1 P3 for VA...
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Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier In this manual is furnished the jumpers position for the 3X5000 tube installed on the VJ5000-TE Once finished the previous operations it’s necessary to connect a power supply with an...
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Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier FIG. 27 - POWER SUPPLIES CONNECTION FOR THE CALIBRATION OF TEST POINT VOLTAGES...
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Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier Another possibility to check it, if the protection logic works correctly, is that to generate an justable voltage of 3.95 V by trimmer P20 and to measure it on test point TP10.
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Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier The calibration of the filament voltage and current cannot be executed with power supply, because the measures must be executed in alternate voltage. To calibrate the filament voltage is necessary to apply on CN7 sockets a voltage like as that of the tube (for example with 4CX35000 is necessary a voltage of 7.5V) and through trimmer P17 adjust the Test...
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Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier TABLE D - QUIESCENT WORKING PARAMETERS PARAMETER 4CX5000 Anode Current 350-400 mA Filament Current 78 A Filament Voltage 7.5 ± 0.37V Grid 1 Voltage - 179 V Grid 2 Voltage...
Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier CHAPTER 5 MAINTENANCE SAFETY RULES PAY ATTENTION ! PAY ATTENTION ! PAY ATTENTION ! PAY ATTENTION ! When the amplifier is working on, and the rear panel is been removed, inside of equipment are present dangerous high tensions.
Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier TUBE REPLACING Through the command PLATE, move the sliding plane with fingers until the upper end position (threshold bars completely exctracted). Disconnect the mains voltage from equipment. Verify that the tube that must be replaced is cold sufficiently to avoid very serious burns.
Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier CHAPTER 6 ADJUSTMENTS NOTE: THESE OPERATIONS MUST BE EXECUTED BY VERY QUALIFIED TECHNICIANS AND EQUIPPED WITH NECESSARY INSTRUMENTS. UNCORRECTED OPERATIONS CAN CUASE A SERIOUS DAMAGE OF THE EQUIPMENT AND CAUSE AUTOMATICALLY THE RESOLVING OF THE WARRANTY.
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Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier This section contains circuit diagrams and alyouts of the module which conposing the equipment...
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Date: 25/07/03 R.V.R. Elettronica S.r.l. (BO) VJ5000-TE - R.F. Tube Amplifier or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
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