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[AMPS] SB-1000 mods?

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Subject: [AMPS] SB-1000 mods?
From: philk5pc@tyler.net (Phil Clements)
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 21:12:40 -0500
The point is that they are both too small if they fail.
At  C. 3800-4000v, a 10 ohm 10 watt resistor will fail.
The glass coated ones usually break cleanly, as if they
were sawed in two. I have learned the hard
way to not use 10 watt resistors above 2500-3000v.

(((73)))
Phil, K5PC


> // A 10-ohm, 10w glass-coated glitch resisitor do not emit schrapnel in a
> SB-220.  This is not the case with a 10-ohm, 10w molded-ceramic type.




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