[Johnson] Valliant 1

[ATanner283@aol.com]

I am currently working on a Valliant 1 I am trying to get on the air. There 
was a discussion (I'm pretty sure it was one of these reflectors) about using 
solid state devices for replacement of the 866 regulators. They are very 
pretty and all that, but really unreliable. I already had one short and had a 
big arc under the chassis before the fuse popped. Please some info on doing 
this. I had a problem also in that the dim past some one recapped this rig 
with higher than print specs caps. Called for 15ufd and they put in 22ufd. I 
believe this makes the pwr supply work harder. They also grounded one end of 
the caps, and grounded the center tap of the HF xfrmr. It appears when you 
measure this leg it IS ground, however the .202 ohm resistance for the plate 
meter is in there. REALLY hard to read. Any how that made the plate and mod 
meter inop. Fixed that up(have to order caps) but now cant get the plate to 
dip on 40 and lower. Also have too much plate current for drive. Have 
replaced finals and neutralized them. This helped too. Any thoughts on the se 
problems??? Thanks....(rig puts out RF by the way...plenty).........Al/W8FAX