[SBE] Harris HT40 TV transmitter question

[Curt Yengst]

I'm not a TV engineer, nor do I play one on TV; but I'm currently assisting at a local TV station.  We've installed a Harris HT40 which was purchased second-hand.  Everything works great except for one thing.....

We're not using the stock exciters, nor are we using the aural modules in the PA cabinets.  Since the station is digital, we're using an after-market digital exciter and using the visual PA's to amplify that signal.  We've disconnected the aural modules from the power supplies, and the stock exciters are completely removed.

We now get, as can be expected, module fault alarms and exciter alarms on the display in the control cabinet.  The exciter alarms are not the big issue here, but the module alarms are.  We know the alarms are caused by the fact that the aural modules are disconnected.  The problem comes if and when we have a legitimate visual module fault.  There's no way to tell.  This prevents us from connecting the module fault alarm to our Burk remote system.

Has anyone else been through this configuration already, and could you suggest a way to "fool" the transmitter into seeing good aural modules, or even getting it to just ignore the disconnected modules?

Curt
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