If they are in parallel and touching each other, and they are all facing the
same way, the
full HV is being applied to the thin ceramic coating over the leads! Take a
couple of
discs and look at them.
Guess how I know this...
On 12/2/2010 7:43 PM, Charles Harpole wrote:
>
> My Titan 1 had some problems. I changed out all the filter caps and left a
> big space
> in the pwr supply due to the new ones being much smaller. However, the main
> fix was to
> replace the disc caps down near the RF output... 3 disks there close
> together and they
> kept burning up, one at a time. I replaced them with same, but put sleeving
> over the
> center one in insulation. Why it worked, I do not know, but no more such
> problems.
> 73,
>
> Charles Harpole k4vud@hotmail.com
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Fresno CA
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