Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A worked for only 5 minutes.

2012-01-20 Thread paul swed
exchange while the gettings good. On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Paul F. Sehorne wrote: > nichegeek and I are exchanging emails. nichegeek has been very > responsive, but before making a decision on how to handle this he asked me > to power up the second one and report back. > > > > > On 1/20

Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A worked for only 5 minutes.

2012-01-20 Thread Paul F. Sehorne
nichegeek and I are exchanging emails. nichegeek has been very responsive, but before making a decision on how to handle this he asked me to power up the second one and report back. On 1/20/2012 1:37 PM, paul swed wrote: Yup after things get settled those are the right currents. So try the

Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A worked for only 5 minutes.

2012-01-20 Thread paul swed
Yup after things get settled those are the right currents. So try the other and see what happens at the higher voltage. However if it should happen to work you have a very marginal unit. I would contact the seller asap or skip the test and just ask for a return. Regards Paul. On Fri, Jan 20, 2012

Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A worked for only 5 minutes.

2012-01-20 Thread Paul F. Sehorne
I powered up the second unit. It has been running just fine for an hour now. The only difference I noted is that the initial current was only 1.4 amp vs 1.8 on the other one. However, I set my power supply to 16.0 volts; no other difference. After warmup the current settled at ~700 ma and the 5

Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A worked for only 5 minutes.

2012-01-19 Thread paul swed
1.8 a is normal for a cold start and after warm about 7-10 min 700 ma On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Paul F. Sehorne wrote: > I received my two FE-5680As late yesterday. This morning I hooked one of > them up. It locked on in a couple of minutes and at about five minutes > quick working. There

[time-nuts] FE-5680A worked for only 5 minutes.

2012-01-19 Thread Paul F. Sehorne
I received my two FE-5680As late yesterday. This morning I hooked one of them up. It locked on in a couple of minutes and at about five minutes quick working. There is a smell of something burnt inside. I have not opened the case to investigate the damage. I had the unit attached to two curren