towerman
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Post by towerman on Aug 31, 2005 0:20:56 GMT
Does anyone know why LT went with pre-war technology on 56/59TS and used moving carbon voltage voltage regulators,which were a maintenance liability,and only a year later A60 & 60TS appear with electronic voltage regulation?
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Phil
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Post by Phil on Aug 31, 2005 10:05:29 GMT
During the 50s electronics was moving at an alarming pace and I suspect that in '54 or so (when the '56s were designed) the stuff then available was just not practical or robust enough for heavy industrial use. Three years later it was far better than the 'primitive' kit that preceded it. For example in that era radios went from all valve to all transistor in less than 3 years
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Post by towerman on Aug 31, 2005 19:35:19 GMT
The equipment on A60's,60/62TS wasn't minaturised by any means,it was a bloody great square thing full of resistors and rectifiers,weighed a ton,surely this equipment was around in the 50's.
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Post by trainopd78 on Sept 1, 2005 7:44:48 GMT
But there is a hell of a lot more room on/ under an A60
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Post by towerman on Sept 1, 2005 19:26:37 GMT
But 60,62,67,72 & 73TS all carried this equipment.
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