DS3800DVRC

Product Description

The DS3800DVRC is a turbine regulator circuit board by General Electric. The DS3800DVRC is a circuit board featured in the Speedtronic Mark IV Series. The regulator boards main function is to prevent the turbine's system from experiencing energy spikes due to power surges. The DS3800DVRC accomplishes this with a variety of detailed parts. There are small resistors around eighty on this board. These resistors have a series of different color band markings. These markings are to show the number of ohms that particular resistor can handle at any given time. The board also features variable resistors or Potentiometers. There are three on this board. They can be identified by the black knobs used to adjust them. Each knob also has a tiny white arrow on top. Each variable resistor can be adjusted individually to allow a certain amount of current or energy flow across the board. Each knob is labeled zero through one-hundred, with small hash marks that indicate ten-degree intervals. The DS3800DVRC board also has ten "power resistors". These resistors are different sizes ranging from small to large. Their purpose is to hold and disperse of high power energy, like the type of jolt the system would get during a power surge. The brains of the operation though are stored in the five small chips on the board called EEPROMs. These chips hold all the programming to tell the board what to do and when to do it. These EEPROMs come preprogrammed for the boards' purpose and cannot be changed. If additional programming is required a sixth EEPROM may be added. This board features a section set aside for just that reason. This spot is labeled "SPARE" and has all the required marking to hook it up and have the current flow to it.