[AMRadio] Valiant Tank Caps
JohnPerz at aol.com
JohnPerz at aol.com
Wed Feb 22 20:06:09 EST 2012
Larry,
I had to redo the output caps after one section of the
turnstile got shorted.Got some from a fellow in the midwest who had to purchase
quanitity. Had to series/parallel them to get proper values but is working out
fine with loading to 200 watts cw, 150 plus on AM.If they are what I
think, they will have flat leads, much sturdier than others, bit of a pain to
work with but manageable.Some where have pix of how I did it. Write if I can
help to the extent I know how. Regards, John, WA2FNS
In a message dated 2/22/2012 7:33:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
lcbs at sbcglobal.net writes:
Good day, Thanks so much for the leads, I found some 3.5KV RF caps on
Ebay. These are Russian Military guys but surely should not smoke like the
1.5KV snubber and silver mica ones did. I know what the owners manual from
Johnson says but the caps on the market today do not seem to handle large
amounts of RF very well. Then maybe the ones I got were defective. Let you know
in several weeks after caps come over the big pond.
73's
Larry K9LWI
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1. Re: Valiant PI net caps (James R. La Frieda)
2. Re: 15 AM Open Right Now (Don Cunningham)
3. Re: Valiant PI net caps (ne1s at securespeed.us)
4. Re: Valiant PI net caps (JohnPerz at aol.com)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:20:54 -0800
From: "James R. La Frieda" <lafrieda at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Valiant PI net caps
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Hi Larry,
Have a Valiant, and although I haven't replaced the tank caps, I looked
at the Valiant schematic and noticed that the tank caps are C 38 A, B,
C, D at *150 mmf 500 V 5% silver mica*, and that the C39A, B, C and D
are *350 mmf , 500 V 5% silver mica capacitors.*
If you go to justradios.com and look at their on-line Excel Order Form,
you will note that they sell Silver mica capacitors at 500 V, 1000 V,
1600 V and 6000V.
150 pf at 500 V are .79 each
350 pf at 500 V are .99 each
All the Best,
Jim ( N6MV)
On 2/21/2012 8:36 AM, Lawrence Steeno wrote:
> Good day, I have 2 Valiant transmitters on my bench now with leaky tank
caps, especially the 300 mmf one. The octagon one with 3 caps in it are
some what okay but suspect. There is another Valiant that is waiting for some
also. Now I am wondering where I may get some of these for replacement. I
tried RF Parts with no luck. I tried regular ceramic caps and they failed
soon so I tried snubber caps at 2KV and they failed also. Where may I look
and for what?
> I am lost and these transmitters are great units and should be warming
up the ionosphere rather than holding down the top of my bench.
> Thanks a bunch.
> Larry K9LWI
>
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:38:28 -0600
From: "Don Cunningham" <donc at martineer.net>
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] 15 AM Open Right Now
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Sorry I missed you, Todd. I was hearing W1GUD, I believe it was, in
Florida
so we could likely have worked!! I plan to get on there more often. I
just
forget 15M for some reason, and that's ALL I worked as a Novice, hi.
Worked
all states except Mississippi. Just couldn't find a station there on
15M!!
73,
Don, WB5HAK
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:58:03 -0500 (EST)
From: ne1s at securespeed.us
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Valiant PI net caps
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> Good day, I have 2 Valiant transmitters on my bench now with leaky tank
> caps, especially the 300 mmf one. The octagon one with 3 caps in it are
> some what okay but suspect. There is another Valiant that is waiting for
> some also. Now I am wondering where I may get some of these for
> replacement. I tried RF Parts with no luck. I tried regular ceramic caps
> and they failed soon so I tried snubber caps at 2KV and they failed also.
> Where may I look and for what?
I used 4 snubber caps (the large silver micas) in series-parallel to
replace each of the postage-stamp micas used as padders for 160M and 80M
(IIRC) on the high-impedance side of the pi-net output in a friend's
(KB1IAW) Valiant. In addition to the RF voltage across them, there is
significant RF current flowing in these caps, so paralleling them helps
out there.
That transmitter has seen a lot of use on those bands since I did that
work at least five years ago, and there has not been a failure.
73/GL,
-Larry/NE1S
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:01:54 -0500 (EST)
From: JohnPerz at aol.com
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Valiant PI net caps
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I was not able to keep the smoke in the 500 volt caps.Got 1500 volt ones,
so far, holding up. Not sure if this indicates another problem, There was
a
discussion about this on the AM radio forum..........de WA2FNS
In a message dated 2/21/2012 12:21:16 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
lafrieda at earthlink.net writes:
Hi Larry,
Have a Valiant, and although I haven't replaced the tank caps, I looked
at the Valiant schematic and noticed that the tank caps are C 38 A, B,
C, D at *150 mmf 500 V 5% silver mica*, and that the C39A, B, C and D
are *350 mmf , 500 V 5% silver mica capacitors.*
If you go to justradios.com and look at their on-line Excel Order Form,
you will note that they sell Silver mica capacitors at 500 V, 1000 V,
1600 V and 6000V.
150 pf at 500 V are .79 each
350 pf at 500 V are .99 each
All the Best,
Jim ( N6MV)
On 2/21/2012 8:36 AM, Lawrence Steeno wrote:
> Good day, I have 2 Valiant transmitters on my bench now with leaky tank
caps, especially the 300 mmf one. The octagon one with 3 caps in it are
some what okay but suspect. There is another Valiant that is waiting for
some
also. Now I am wondering where I may get some of these for replacement. I
tried RF Parts with no luck. I tried regular ceramic caps and they failed
soon so I tried snubber caps at 2KV and they failed also. Where may I
look
and for what?
> I am lost and these transmitters are great units and should be warming
up the ionosphere rather than holding down the top of my bench.
> Thanks a bunch.
> Larry K9LWI
>
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