[ARC5] Crummy Grounds

Kenneth G. Gordon kgordon2006 at frontier.com
Mon Mar 18 20:19:47 EDT 2019


On 18 Mar 2019 at 23:00, J Mcvey via ARC5 wrote:

> Bad flower pot! The one on the raw HV line likes to go dead short too...

That triple 0.22 mfd job in the HF receivers, C-16 A, B, C will short out the instant 250 V 
from the dynamotor is applied to it.

> I have a different kind of "crummy ground" - an ARC-5 VHF receiver that has a dead short across 
> the low voltage power pin of the dynamotor connector on the back.  I have not yet dug into it to 
> figure out what is going on.

Ken W7EKB


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