[Johnson] Ranger relay socket

Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:09:51 -0800

You guys are getting all mixed up.....
Roy....Cal is the one who needs to know this....not me.

Regards

Dave Harmon
NSRCA 586
K6XYZ[at]comcast[dot]net
Torrance, Ca.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roy Morgan
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 3:10 PM
To: kwylow zinjanthropus; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Johnson] Ranger relay socket

At 02:32 PM 1/9/04 -0800, you wrote:
>Don't know how it could be dangerous. If it is, can you explain
(serously).

Dave,

(The ceramic can crack and let the line side of the power contact the
chassis.)

For it to be dangerous to you:
Just pull the connector a little way out of the socket and put your
finger 
in there.  If you do this while reaching around behind the transmitter
and 
can't see what you are doing well you are pretty much guaranteed good 
contact with the case. ZAPPP!
Or let a bit of that lovely half inch braid you use to ground the 
transmitter with contact the hot pin.
Or be working back there with a screwdriver and have it contact the
screw 
on those little Plexiglas gadgets that accept a wire or FT-243 crystal
and 
plug into the HC-6 type socket.

Also, the thing is two wires only, and so your relay gets no safety 
ground.  (yes, a coax relay is normally grounded to the transmitter via
the 
coax, but you may well use that connector to power some other kind of
relay.)

I think that we could make up a small minibox to mount over the existing

socket that would have a safe grounded connector on it.  A no-holes fix
for 
the danger.

Roy

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