[Hallicrafters] 3 prong ac cords?

[Edward B Richards]

Wayne et al;

Since you were hooking up the speaker, it may have been audio that got
you not line voltage. The high impedance speaker terminals can develop
quite a voltage if the volume control is turned up. I have been bit by
500 ohm speaker terminals. The 5000 ohm would be even worse. 

To install a 3-wire grounded line cord on a transformer powered radio.
connect the hot (black) wire to the switch, the neutral (white) wire to
the transformer return and the ground (green) wire to the chassis.

For transformerless (AC/DC) radios connect the hot wire to the switch,
the neutral to the chassis and the ground to the cabinet which must be
insulated from the chassis. In some cases minor rewiring may be required
as the switch may go to the chassis.

Good luck

Ed Richards K6UUZ 

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 22:18:22 -0700 (PDT) Wayne Light
<hwlight at sbcglobal.net> writes:
> I believe there has been some threads on how to install grounded 
> power cords on the old Hallicrafters receivers...however after 
> searching the archives I didn't find any.  Can someone refer me to 
> information about the correct manner to do this.  After getting a 
> WHOPPING shock while hooking up the speaker terminals of my SX-16,. 
> I figured I better figure out what I can do to protect this from 
> happening.  I was also touching the chassis at the time.
>  
> Thanks for any help!
> Wayne
> 
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