[Hallicrafters] S38D Line safety, Capacitor Location???

[Bill Gerhold]

This is starting to get comical.  I know how to check a capacitor.  What "I"
am saying is, "THERE IS NO CAPACITOR CONNECTED BETWEEN THE CHASSIS AND THE
CASE IN S-38E RECEIVERS"!  IT/THEY DOES NOT EXIST!

I will say it again.  The case of the S-38E receiver is connected to
nothing, nada.  It is floating above ground and above the chassis.  I don't
care if all the capacitors in the S-38E shorted, blew up or exploded.  The
case will not and cannot be affected.

My stated use of an ohmmeter was only to confirm the chassis and case were
isolated "Mechanically" from each other.  The ohmmeter confirmed they were
indeed isolated "mechanically".  No metal to metal contact exists.

K2WH

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth G. Gordon [mailto:kgordon at moscow.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 9:33 PM
To: Bill Gerhold
Cc: Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE: [Hallicrafters] S38D Line safety, Capacitor Location???

> However, just to be sure I went and checked my S-38E's with an ohm
> meter and the results indicate an outer case that is floating above
> the chassis. There is no metal to metal contact from the chassis to
> the outer case, anywhere!

Bill:

You can't check for a capacitor with an ohmmeter.

OF COURSE, an ohmmeter would show no connection between 
the chassis and the case if only a capacitor were connecting the 
two together. The capacitor looks like an open-circuit to an 
ohmmeter.

What Glenn is talking about is if the capacitor shorted out. 
Then you most definitely WOULD have AC on the cabinet.

I use an S-41G and Glenn is absolutely correct.

Ken Gordon W7EKB