Operation Manual Part 3

Digital Liquid Cooled UHF
TV Equipment
Description / Test points / Location of units
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3.10.5. Test points
Connector J1 on the front of the panel provides a test monitoring
feed of the amplifier RF output signal.
3.10.6. Adjustment controls
There is a potentiometer control (R164) on the front panel of each
RF amplifier module which is used to set the AGC voltage of each
power amplifier to the same value.
3.10.7. Protection and surveillance devices
The protection card protects the amplifier using surveillance signals as follows :
protection against degradation of SWR performance at the amplifier output: this surveillance device
is triggered when the SWR value is greater than 2.
protection system against high currents in the amplifier LDMOS transistors: a fast acting current
measuring system detects an abnormal current increase in the transistors. The surveillance device
is triggered at a current I > 45 A for a block of 4 double transistors (2 amplifier modules).
thermal protection system: when the input air temperature is greater than 60°C inside the amplifier
the amplifier is automatically switched off.
under-voltage protection device is triggered when the DC supply drops below 24 V.
In all of the above protection systems, when a particular threshold parameter is reached, the amplifier
is protected by attenuating the input signal (by 20 dB). In case of overheating and/or overvoltage, the
amplifier is protected by an immediate shutdown by rapidly changing the transistor bias voltages.
To re-start the amplifier a reset command from the Central Processing Unit is necessary.

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