[AMRadio] Re: High Voltage Power Supplies

[ne1s]

This part sounds like an inrush limiter, not a transient suppressor. They 
are useful to prevent inrush current stress of tube filaments, and may also 
be a good idea for HV supplies, especially capacitor input. 

Digikey carries them - the Digikey part number for the CL-30 is KL003 - 
something. 

The CL-80 is useful to prevent the power microswitch from welding closed on 
your R-390/R390A (Jan Skirrow whote this up - it's somewhere on the web). 

73,
 -Larry/NE1S 

bcarling at cfl.rr.com writes: 

> Noit sure Don - a fellow ham traded these to me.
> They are black disks and look pretty much like a large 
> ceramic capacitor, if you can imagine... 
> 
> They are marked:
> STM  and  CL-30 
> 
> I think the resistance at rest is about 3 to 5 ohms. 
> 
> On 30 Oct 2005 at 9:24, Rev. Don Sanders wrote: 
> 
>> OK Bry, You got my interest. What is the part number and are they from
>> Mouser? I know I need several for my boatanchors and my 2 Astrons(20 and 35
>> amp). 
>> 
>> Healthfully yours,
>>                           DON W4BWS
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: <bcarling at cfl.rr.com>
>> To: "Discussion of AM Radio" <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 7:27 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AMRadio] High Voltage Power Supplies 
>> 
>> 
>> > On 30 Oct 2005 at 9:08, Ed Swynar wrote:
>> >
>> > > Is this the reult of transients / voltage spikes somehow "overwhelming"
>> > > the diodes...?
>> >
>> > Probably - why not try one of those transient suppressors (varistor I
>> think)
>> > on the primary side of your power tranny?
>> > I just put one in my Astron 35M and it eliminated the "THUNK!"
>> > at power-on.
>> >
>> > A number of guys have put them into Johnson xmtrs with similar
>> improvement.
>> > Maybe it could save your diode strings.
>> >
>> > Do you have a capacitor-input filter on the p.s.u.?
>> > Choke input filters tend to be a bit kinder to the rectifiers.
>> >
>> > 73 de AF4K, Bry
>> >
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