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

[k0ewu at juno.com]

FWIW DEPT.  To prevent this sort of thing happening I usually put a 0.1
mfd 600v
cap in series with the ant lead inside the chassis.  very hi reactance at
60 hurts!
old jac
On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 09:50:21 -0500 Roy Morgan <roy.morgan at nist.gov>
writes:
> At 10:45 PM 12/7/2005, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> 
> >Also, in one of my most recent S-41Gs, I had the power plug in the 
> wall
> >socket backwards, connected a ground lead to the antenna ground,
> >accidentaly brushed a ground lead against the chassis, blew the
> >electrical panel circuit breaker, and promptly burned out the 
> antenna
> >coupling coil, which I had to rewind.
> 
> 
> Ugh!!
> 
> Sooo.. have you gotten an isolation transformer yet?
> 
> Roy
> 
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