I had a Ten Tec model 229 L-net tuner here for a while. Managed to
burn up one of the padding caps with my meager AL-811 500W linear
on 160 meters. The padding caps were 2kV ceramic discs, I think 220pf.
Replaced them with 3kV ceramics and never smoked another one. Have
since gotten rid of the tuner. No more antenna tuners in this shack.
-Kirk K4RO
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