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<blockquote data-quote="p238shooter" data-source="post: 3827329" data-attributes="member: 24583"><p>Lots of comments I could throw out at 3 am after cooking fish I caught earlier in my lake. Yep, most likely was not designed to be "rung" frequently, so a little "sparking" on the contacts to degrade them was not considered very much of a problem. Adding a capaciter across will help. Not knowing other paramaters, not able to help here. Yep, if the contacts are blackened (browned) a little clean up might be necessary. This can range from a little cardboard frrom a business card sliding back and forth to using a very small file to polish them. Again, Keep in mind, this device was not set up to ring once a day at 12 pm noon. This was to be sure it rang in an emergency, ring till something in its system fails, what ever it might be. </p><p></p><p>My opinion, clean up the contacts, ring it 49-50 times, then polish up the contacts again. Interesting thread. nifty device. Reminds me, I think I have a red strobe light from the 80s somewhere in my shop. Wonder if the capacitors are still Ok. Might have to "flash" my neighborhood. Ha ha</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="p238shooter, post: 3827329, member: 24583"] Lots of comments I could throw out at 3 am after cooking fish I caught earlier in my lake. Yep, most likely was not designed to be "rung" frequently, so a little "sparking" on the contacts to degrade them was not considered very much of a problem. Adding a capaciter across will help. Not knowing other paramaters, not able to help here. Yep, if the contacts are blackened (browned) a little clean up might be necessary. This can range from a little cardboard frrom a business card sliding back and forth to using a very small file to polish them. Again, Keep in mind, this device was not set up to ring once a day at 12 pm noon. This was to be sure it rang in an emergency, ring till something in its system fails, what ever it might be. My opinion, clean up the contacts, ring it 49-50 times, then polish up the contacts again. Interesting thread. nifty device. Reminds me, I think I have a red strobe light from the 80s somewhere in my shop. Wonder if the capacitors are still Ok. Might have to "flash" my neighborhood. Ha ha [/QUOTE]
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