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Re: 'Toll free' gets blasted with 6 kv !
Another item for your perusal https://www.oreillyauto.com/flux-capacitor?q=121g To: ham_amplifiers@... Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 2:04 PM Subject: Re: [ham_amplifiers] 'Toll free'
By Scott, KB3JQQ · #36783 ·
Re: 'Toll free' gets blasted with 6 kv !
"whirly gig atom-smasher thingy". That just cracks me right up. Sounds like a great title for a project...for 73 magazine. Ever seen those industrial labels, typ on a blue / black back ground, with
By Jim VE7RF · #36782 ·
Re: 'Toll free' gets blasted with 6 kv !
My Harris FM20K has high voltage wire encased in steel flex tube. Impossible to get smacked with it. John Lyles is the real deal. He's also one HELL of a nice guy. I'm on a couple lists he frequents.
By 1800 Toll Free · #36781 ·
Re: 'Toll free' gets blasted with 6 kv !
<Randy Jan 11 7:32 PM <Another reply from the same guy; obviously the pic isn't attached, but I can post it to the files if you <reallllllly need it. <Here's a photo of a 25 KW FM tube PA transmitter
By Jim VE7RF · #36780 ·
Re: 'Toll free' gets blasted with 6 kv !
Glad to hear you are still kicking. That makes my foray into getting poked with 408 AC and 540 DC as mere tickles although after the 540 I woke up on the basement floor. I had been working up on the
By Roger (K8RI) · #36779 ·
Re: 'Toll free' gets blasted with 6 kv !
Another reply from the same guy; obviously the pic isn't attached, but I can post it to the files if you reallllllly need it. Here's a photo of a 25 KW FM tube PA transmitter with the external power
By Randy Venable · #36778 ·
Re: 'Toll free' gets blasted with 6 kv !
First reply: "A good number of FM broadcast transmitters above 10 KW TPO have external power supplies, as do most of the old big-iron 50 KW tube transmitters....some of which used what were
By Randy Venable · #36777 ·
Re: 'Toll free' gets blasted with 6 kv !
I just posed the question to "AM/FM/TV Broadcast Engineers" page on FaceBook, and if that doesn't generate any helpful replies, I might go off-topic on the "I Take Pictures of Transmitter Sites" on
By Randy Venable · #36776 ·
Re: 'Toll free' gets blasted with 6 kv !
<Toll Free Jan 4 9:33 AM < My hand got too close to an abraded wire going into a Millen connector. ## do u mean a strand of the GTO neon sign wire was hanging out the side ?? ## My problem with
By Jim VE7RF · #36775 ·
Re: 'Toll free' gets blasted with 6 kv !
JFC Shane, you are sure one lucky mutha! Ive been warning folks off Millens for at least 3 decades, 7KV rated my ass, 2.5KV on a dry day. VE7 Jim remembers those other connectors I used to sell, $9.50
By Carl · #36774 ·
Re: 'Toll free' gets blasted with 6 kv !
Toll, That tops all my "got across HV" stories, and I have a few. Unlike yours, all of mine were directly related to utter ignorance or criminal carelessness. We can all learn from your experience --
By Jim Strohm · #36773 ·
Re: 'Toll free' gets blasted with 6 kv !
Bloody hell, Shane.? You are indeed lucky to be alive.? So someone traded an amp with you that had electrocuted its last owner?? That was really nice of them.? I think I'd invite them to come and
By DAVE WHITE · #36772 ·
Re: 'Toll free' gets blasted with 6 kv !
You didn't hear thru the grapevine, I emailed you and sent pics. Yes, it is true that I got tagged. Three times. It was NOT a direct hit, as some of the ass clowns keep trying to make it seem. I did
By 1800 Toll Free · #36771 ·
Re: 'Toll free' gets blasted with 6 kv !
I have tested a bunch of PL259 and depending on your luck they run about 4-5KV before arcing.? More or less the same regardless of the maker (the amphonels were not much better than the
By Jeff AC0C · #36770 ·
Re: 'Toll free' gets blasted with 6 kv !
<Carl Dec 28 6:47 AM <Teflon UHF connectors and fresh RG-213 to about 5 KV or so; they are used <commercially in non RF apps to at least 10 KV that Ive seen over several <decades. ## Back in the 70's,
By Jim VE7RF · #36769 ·
Re: 'Toll free' gets blasted with 6 kv !
Teflon UHF connectors and fresh RG-213 to about 5 KV or so; they are used commercially in non RF apps to at least 10 KV that Ive seen over several decades.
By Carl · #36768 ·
Re: Solder Suckers
Nah but it's rumoured that it'll pull a baseball through a garden hose. Alek. VK6APK -- From sunny Binningup Family Businesses: SP Electrical. www.spelectrical.net.au The Velvet Fox.
By Alek Petkovic · #36767 ·
Re: Solder Suckers
Or suck-start a B-52? Mod-U-Lator, Mike(y)/W3SLK Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2018 9:36 AM To: ham_amplifiers@... Subject: Re: [ham_amplifiers] Solder Suckers How about "Can it suck a golf
By Mike Sawyer · #36766 ·
Re: Solder Suckers
How about "Can it suck a golf ball through a garden hose?" Edmund Watts ed_watts@...
By EDMUND WATTS · #36765 ·
Re: Solder Suckers
Can it suck the chrome off of a trailer hitch, or suck-start a Harley ? Don W4DNR Quoting "Lee Bahr w5drc@... [ham_amplifiers]" <ham_amplifiers@...>:
By Don Roden · #36764 ·