[R-390] SS VR replacement for 3TF7

[Tom Norris]

Where's the Kielbasa? The Lutefisk? The Damp Sheep??

But seriously...  I've heard this discussed in and among the Dead  
Horse Graveyard, and since I have a radio apart, now is as good a  
time as any to try it. Just need to pick up the parts in a few days.   
And I need to set up the GPS standard that I've been meaning to for  
the past two years that sits on the shelf pointing and laughing.   
I've got a serious roundtuit deficiency.

Who else has tried the simple DC regulator method and written down  
what the results were versus that of a current regulator?  I'd hate  
to think a team of experienced engineers screwed up something as  
simple as a ballast arrangement.  Maybe if we stepped into our TARDIS  
and took them a boxful of 7812's we could have nipped the whole  
ballast problem in the bud, as Barney Fife would have said?

73

Tom NU4G
"Better Living Through Lutefisk"



On Jan 3, 2006, at 11:54 AM, Barry wrote:

> Any else tried this?  If so, any problems, improvements, etc.?
>
> http://www.kongsfjord.no/dl/R-390A/R-390A%203TF7%20Substitutes%20 
> (wm).pdf
>
> Barry - N4BUQ