[Hammarlund] HQ-150 Line Bypass Caps Needed

Robert Nickels ranickel at comcast.net
Sun Aug 22 11:40:16 EDT 2010


  While not relevant to our boatanchor repair purposes, slapping an X 
capacitor across the AC line is more complicated than it may seem, at 
least for OEMs who much meet new "green" power consumption requirements 
(such as EuP Lot 6 compliance).   One company has just introduced a 
solution - an Automatic X Capacitor Discharge IC:

http://www.powerint.com/products/capzero-family/capzero

How to do this with vacuum tubes will be left as an exercise for the 
reader ;-)

73, Bob W9RAN



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