[MRCA] need connector for 180L3 tuner

DSP3 jeepp at comcast.net
Tue Dec 12 11:55:30 EST 2017


You might also try Wm. Perry Co. in Louisville. Bill is the arguably the 
best east-of-the-Mississippi connector supplier.

Jeep - K3HVG


On 12/12/2017 8:43 AM, Ray Fantini wrote:
>
> It’s the same connector as the TCS series transmitter. And yes, they 
> will work with any transmitter for loading a long wire antenna from 
> twenty to sixty feet. The 400 cycle supply is critical to its 
> operation being it works the internal chopper and servo circuit that 
> drives the autotransformer on the input.
>
> The big capacitor and roller are both driven by 28 Vdc but without the 
> 400 cycles there is no sensing and no correction.
>
> In operation you can keep the 28 and 250 volt supplies on the entire 
> time and just switch the 400 cycles AC on and off when you want it to 
> tune.
>
> Have a friend who is working on solid stating the entire chopper and 
> amplifier section that would allow the tuner to run on just 28 Vdc  
> but that’s not finished yet.
>
> Ray F/KA3EKH
>
>

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