In article . net,
"Ralph Mowery" wrote:

I don't debate or try very hard to teach idiots but the Astrons have a
crowbar circuit that will activate and the output voltage will drop to a
very low value. Most simiconductors fail by shorting and are not blown
open.

Bzzzt, Wrong again, If the Crowbar SCR is shorted or in the conducting
state, then the whole output of the powersupply would be dissipated by
it, and that would then cause the Pass transistors to fail from
overcurrent, or the input AC fuse to fail from overcurrent. He stated
in the original post, that the AC fuse was GOOD, but he was getting no
output voltage on the DC terminals, therefore there would be an OPEN
somewhere in the supply that was caused by the OVER CURRENT of touching
the DC Terminals together.

Your analysis skills are a bit lacking here dude.


Me