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| Uriah... |
 Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:34 am |
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I need to provide a 10VAC power supply to a cirris cable tester and
they said it was unbalanced. It is a three pin input with the center
being neutral and each side is hot 10VAC but it is unbalanced. What
do they mean by unbalanced? How would I wire that up? And is there a
way to tell how to wire it in from looking at the device, I don't have
the that power supply.
Thanks
Russ |
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| Allen Bong... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:01 am |
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On Oct 23, 3:34 am, Uriah <uriah... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:
[quote]I need to provide a 10VAC power supply to a cirris cable tester and
they said it was unbalanced. It is a three pin input with the center
being neutral and each side is hot 10VAC but it is unbalanced. What
do they mean by unbalanced? How would I wire that up? And is there a
way to tell how to wire it in from looking at the device, I don't have
the that power supply.
Thanks
Russ
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Which model of cable tester are you using?
There are 10 models here:
http://www.cirris.com/cable/tester/testers.html
and this model use 110/220V ac or 9V battery:
http://www.cirris.com/cable/tester/1000lc.pdf
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| Tom Biasi... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:30 am |
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"Uriah" <uriahsky at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:061571ec-d345-4a2b-b21a-f36063b639e1 at (no spam) m3g2000pri.googlegroups.com...
[quote]I need to provide a 10VAC power supply to a cirris cable tester and
they said it was unbalanced. It is a three pin input with the center
being neutral and each side is hot 10VAC but it is unbalanced. What
do they mean by unbalanced? How would I wire that up? And is there a
way to tell how to wire it in from looking at the device, I don't have
the that power supply.
Thanks
Russ
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| Uriah... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:31 am |
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On Oct 23, 4:01 am, Allen Bong <allenbsf6... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
[quote]On Oct 23, 3:34 am, Uriah <uriah... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:
I need to provide a 10VAC power supply to a cirris cable tester and
they said it wasunbalanced. It is a three pin input with the center
being neutral and each side is hot 10VAC but it isunbalanced. What
do they mean byunbalanced? How would I wire that up? And is there a
way to tell how to wire it in from looking at the device, I don't have
the that power supply.
Thanks
Russ
Which model of cable tester are you using?
There are 10 models here:
http://www.cirris.com/cable/tester/testers.html
and this model use 110/220Vacor 9V battery:
http://www.cirris.com/cable/tester/1000lc.pdf
Allen
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It is a Cirris 1000 a discontinued model. But it uses the three pin
10VAC adapter. I emailed them and they explained what unbalanced
meant to them. Just that the voltage could fluctuate a little from the
10VAC? No schematic available. So if I wire this with an adapter
that comes from wall is it ground to 10VAC on each side or is it 10VAC
between the two sides? Center tap to 10VAC on the left and center tap
to 10VAC on the right.... or 10VAC from left to right then it would be
gnd to 5VAC to the left and gnd to 5VAC to the right? More questions.
I have damaged things by not being sure of stuff like this.
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| Phil Allison... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:10 pm |
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"Uriah" <uriahsky at (no spam) hotmail.com>
It is a Cirris 1000 a discontinued model. But it uses the three pin
10VAC adapter. I emailed them and they explained what unbalanced
meant to them. Just that the voltage could fluctuate a little from the
10VAC? No schematic available. So if I wire this with an adapter
that comes from wall is it ground to 10VAC on each side or is it 10VAC
between the two sides? Center tap to 10VAC on the left and center tap
to 10VAC on the right.... or 10VAC from left to right then it would be
gnd to 5VAC to the left and gnd to 5VAC to the right? More questions.
I have damaged things by not being sure of stuff like this.
** For fuck's sake - buy one from Cirris !!!!
It's called an " RPWR-10 " power supply.
Its a SPECIAL design unit and with a special 3 pin plug.
http://www.cirris.com/cable/tester/images/rpwr-10-750.jpg
...... Phil |
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