>
>The protective choke opens when the HV is applied to it,
>preventing HV to go all the way to your antenna.
Faulty electronic circuit analysis. .
>It is caused by one of two things....leaking/shorted plate block
>capacitors, or some critter or conductive object shorted the
>plate block cap out momentarily.
>
Such capacitors are not damaged by being shorted by a foreign object.
>I would change out the plate block cap(s) while you have the thing opened up.
>
If a ceramic plate blocking C does not indicate a short on an ohm-meter,
changing it will have no effect whatsoever.
cheers
........
- Rich..., 805.386.3734, www.vcnet.com/measures.
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