on 6/19/01 5:32 PM, Alek Petkovic at vk6apk@eon.net.au wrote:
> One thing that I have found though, is that you also have to look at the
> spacing and insulation of the stator plates to frame. It is here where I
> have experienced the greatest problems when I built a tuner. The plate
> spacing was big but the spacing to frame was small and the frame had many
> sharp edges and corners where arcs easily occurred.
Good point. This sucker is well built. The caps are very large. Again,
I've not seen a better built unit. Of course, the Nye Viking unit may be
bigger and better, but it costs nearly $1000 too.
73,
Jon
NA9D
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Jon Ogden
NA9D (ex: KE9NA)
Member: ARRL, AMSAT, DXCC, NRA
http://www.qsl.net/ke9na
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