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Burk/Gentner Remote Control Metering

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BobOnTheJob

I'm stumped...A Continental 815R 5KW FM has a floating ground for the remote plate current reading. It refuses to interface with the Burk R/C system. This is the R/C that is a modern version of the Gentner VRC 2000. I've heard that you must place something between the xmtr & the R/C, but so far, no one has been able to tell me specifically what that "something" is...anyone been down this road?
 
Continental offers a remote metering board for the bigger stuff, call them and ask how to handle the 5KW. You can't be the first person to ask.
 
Is it possible there is test point somewhere on the back that is access to that isolated ground?
Unless the manufacturer never intended remote metering , there would have to be some way to reference the DC common.
What's the schematic show?
Anything that goes between the xmtr and the R/C would have to somehow establish or "replicate" that DC common reference.
 
Gentner used to make a DC isolation amp for just that purpose. We used one several year ago to isolate the plate current metering on a QEI 3500. Check with
Burk and see if they still make them.
 
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