[Elecraft] K3S Proper Grounding

[Fred Jensen]

Good advice, both on the caps and pulling the breaker and checking that 
it's dead.  Of the 38 24 VAC irrigation valves I had [before we sold the 
farm], 6 were directly under my low band sloping V and I turned them on 
and off at 30 WPM which is not an approved code speed for Irritrol 
valves.  0.01 disk caps right at the valves killed it.

73,

Fred K6DGW
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On 9/26/2015 5:22 PM, Bob McGraw - K4TAX wrote:
> You might just add a 0.05 mf 600V capacitor between the black to ground
> and a 2nd one from white to ground at each light.  Likely the Romex
> comes into the box and the lamp is wire nutted on.  Should be pretty
> easy to figure out how to install a couple of bypass caps.
>
> Before working on this, be sure and kill the breaker to the lamp circuit
> as it will be hot all the time, even with the lamp off.
>
> 73
> Bob, K4TAX
> K3S s/n 10,163