- 361. [AMPS] Re: 6m amp blocking caps (score: 1)
- Author: 2@vc.net (2)
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 12:49:45 -0800
- When DC blocking caps are paralleled, a parallel-resonance is created between the capacitors in the RF output path. The additional resonance may be problematic. W6PO circuit, to 100 to - R. L. Measu
- /archives//html/Amps/2001-12/msg00085.html (13,416 bytes)
- 362. [AMPS] involuntary vacation(?) (score: 1)
- Author: 2@vc.net (2)
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 14:04:41 -0800
- // Better keep ur receiver turned on during your future trip to the hospital. I have come close to being QRTed twice in a hospital due to medical hubris. cheers, Bill - R. L. Measures, 805.386.3734,
- /archives//html/Amps/2001-12/msg00087.html (7,082 bytes)
- 363. [AMPS] AL1500 (score: 1)
- Author: 2@vc.net (2)
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 04:32:37 -0800
- // Chortle. As I understand the phenomenon, stopping a parasite with a grid-I auto-shutdown is probably not as easy as it first looks. An 8877's cathode is capable of producing over 50A of peak elec
- /archives//html/Amps/2001-12/msg00093.html (10,776 bytes)
- 364. [AMPS] AL1500 (score: 1)
- Author: 2@vc.net (2)
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 04:32:40 -0800
- // Tnx, Peter. There may be yet another manufacturing defect since, as I recall, Mr. Rauch stated that recent failures in the AL-1500 were still Eimac's fault. cheers - R. L. Measures, 805.386.3734,
- /archives//html/Amps/2001-12/msg00094.html (9,655 bytes)
- 365. [AMPS] Re: 6m amp blocking caps (score: 1)
- Author: 2@vc.net (2)
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 04:43:40 -0800
- With two doorkob caps in parallel of equal value, I got a sharp dip at c. 80MHz. I could repear rhe experiment if you like, Ian. // Why not? Is the sharp dip I see on the dipmeter a pseudo-dip? - R.
- /archives//html/Amps/2001-12/msg00095.html (9,820 bytes)
- 366. [AMPS] AL1500 (score: 1)
- Author: 2@vc.net (2)
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 05:19:08 -0800
- There is no one circuit that has this flaw. There are several. I have never seen an 8877 grid-I-trip ckt that used a >2a transistor. If you know of one, please enlighten. cheers, Ian - R. L. Measure
- /archives//html/Amps/2001-12/msg00101.html (9,161 bytes)
- 367. [AMPS] AL1500 (score: 1)
- Author: 2@vc.net (2)
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 05:19:10 -0800
- // Removing the 8877's anode cooler is not all that difficult, and it's not nearly as stinky as doing a human autopsy. Spotting the cause of death takes maybe 20-seconds when my 30x magnifier isn't
- /archives//html/Amps/2001-12/msg00102.html (9,569 bytes)
- 368. [AMPS] AL1500 (score: 1)
- Author: 2@vc.net (2)
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 05:39:55 -0800
- // see such "nonsence" at: http://www.vcnet.com/measures/bandsw.html // The Red Herring // So why did you stonewall me six times during the Grate Parasitics Debate when I asked you: is there a VHF p
- /archives//html/Amps/2001-12/msg00103.html (11,301 bytes)
- 369. [AMPS] Re: 6m amp blocking caps (score: 1)
- Author: 2@vc.net (2)
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 06:02:03 -0800
- // The issue at hand is using two, paralleled capacitors as a DC blocker. My position is one DC blocking cap with more current capability is a better choice // So Mr. Rauch was in error about the MF
- /archives//html/Amps/2001-12/msg00104.html (11,072 bytes)
- 370. [AMPS] AL1500 (score: 1)
- Author: 2@vc.net (2)
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 07:54:16 -0800
- just for a // During the Grate Parasitics Debate, our "recognized expert" clearly succeded in proving that "There is no safety in technological hubris" and that his opponent would not make an under-
- /archives//html/Amps/2001-12/msg00111.html (9,881 bytes)
- 371. [AMPS] Re: 6m amp blocking caps (score: 1)
- Author: 2@vc.net (2)
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 07:54:20 -0800
- // Didn't Tom say that the dipper option for the MFJ antenna analyzer is disfunctional? - R. L. Measures, 805.386.3734,AG6K, www.vcnet.com/measures. end -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/FAQ/
- /archives//html/Amps/2001-12/msg00112.html (10,083 bytes)
- 372. [AMPS] AL1500 (score: 1)
- Author: 2@vc.net (2)
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 07:54:22 -0800
- // Out of the last five 8877s I autopsied, only one indicated parasite damage (loose gold) -- which came from an out-of-warranty AL-1500 amplifier. // One of the two tubes in my SB-220 was manufactu
- /archives//html/Amps/2001-12/msg00113.html (10,554 bytes)
- 373. [AMPS] AL1500 (score: 1)
- Author: 2@vc.net (2)
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 08:02:27 -0800
- // Some Alphas apparently C-E-short their interrupt transistor. // If grid-overcurrent protection circuits worked I would not be seeing kaput 8877s with loose gold about. - R. L. Measures, 805.386.3
- /archives//html/Amps/2001-12/msg00115.html (9,431 bytes)
- 374. [AMPS] Re: 6m amp blocking caps (score: 1)
- Author: 2@vc.net (2)
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 13:29:58 -0800
- // Do two equal-capacitance paralleled caps have a resonance? // Mr. Rauch stated that the dipmeter adapter does not work correctly. // In my experiences 50, 57, and 58 Series doorknob caps have a r
- /archives//html/Amps/2001-12/msg00122.html (11,632 bytes)
- 375. [AMPS] AL1500 (score: 1)
- Author: 2@vc.net (2)
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 13:29:56 -0800
- // Fast enough is no observable damage to the electron tube with a high-pot tester, Over-current fuses open to limit current, but over-current transistors often short, which does not limit current.
- /archives//html/Amps/2001-12/msg00123.html (9,886 bytes)
- 376. [AMPS] AL1500 (score: 1)
- Author: 2@vc.net (2)
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 18:11:50 -0800
- \ The active device whose job is to interrupt the flow of grid current. The amplifier that the gold-sputtered 8877 in Figure 24 on my Web site was removed from a AL-1500, which has a grid "protectio
- /archives//html/Amps/2001-12/msg00133.html (10,100 bytes)
- 377. [AMPS] AL1500 (score: 1)
- Author: 2@vc.net (2)
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 18:11:52 -0800
- \ Overdrive normally flakes off the cathode's emissive coating. There's a photograph of a flaked cathode in "Parasitics Revisited" in the September/October 1990 issue of *QST*. As can be seen in the
- /archives//html/Amps/2001-12/msg00134.html (10,409 bytes)
- 378. [AMPS] AL1500 (score: 1)
- Author: 2@vc.net (2)
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 20:15:53 -0800
- \ Perhaps grid-current does not stop soon enough? The 77 has a history of gold-sputtering 8877s. Beats me. tnx, Paul - R. L. Measures, 805.386.3734,AG6K, www.vcnet.com/measures. end -- FAQ on WWW: h
- /archives//html/Amps/2001-12/msg00136.html (11,024 bytes)
- 379. [AMPS] AL1500 (score: 1)
- Author: 2@vc.net (2)
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 20:35:56 -0800
- Agreed, however, this was way after the heat dam mfg defect was corrected, and most amp builders knew it. As I see it, most of us knew that Henry, Alpha, Dentron and all the rest used parasitic supp
- /archives//html/Amps/2001-12/msg00137.html (9,065 bytes)
- 380. [AMPS] Re: 6m amp blocking caps (score: 1)
- Author: 2@vc.net (2)
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 06:38:16 -0800
- \ This does not appear to be the result when one experimentally parallels two, equal value doorknob caps with straps and checks for resonance with a dipmeter. \ semi-agreed \ Certainly - for finding
- /archives//html/Amps/2001-12/msg00145.html (11,005 bytes)
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