[Johnson] We have a FB working Valiant

[Whitebear1122]

Loved your Valiant "check list" :)  I'm still chuckling over it.  hi hi  I need to recap mine and put in a 3 wire plug.  Mine 'thunks' on power up so I'd love to reduce that huge surge on the transformer.  I don't know if thermisters are the answer.  Pretty fast.  Wonder if I could put a relay under the chassis to give a couple second of current limited (a resistor) charge on the caps before shorting the resistor and letting the cap charge the rest of the way.  

Are any of you Valiant users still running the 866 mercury vapor rectifiers?  I replaced mine with 3B28's back in 1996.  I still miss the nuclear fusion like glow from the 866's though.  

73, Scott WA9WFA


On May 23, 2015, at 6:30 PM, patrick at ae1pt.com wrote:
On May 23, 2015, at 6:30 PM, patrick at ae1pt.com wrote:

> That's the way it was with mine.  Works fine he said.  Bought it from a hard
> up ham.  A look inside and the 6146 modulators were missing.  Only worked CW
> he said.  Didn't care, as the walk out the door price was $150 for a very
> clean looking Valiant.  Chernobyl resistor blown--check.  Shorted filter
> cap--check.  Resistors 40% out of tolerance--check.  Idiot modification to
> the clipper circuit--check.
> 
> At least it was "running" better than the NC-300 I bought a week later as
> its companion.  Works fine he said.....
>