At 09:23 AM 3/9/03 -0800, Skipp
wrote:
>Turned out to be the Cap as mentioned below. I
>found out by asking on Amps that Heath had
>changed the cap to a higher V rated unit. Speculation
>by some that the cap change was done to deal with
>the yet undiscovered parasitic issue.
I think I've been told that when Heath switched to the higher voltage tune
capacitor, they only succeeded in moving the arcing issue to the
bandswitch. I think I'd rather arc the tuning cap occasionally. Mine
never arcs unless I have screwed up somewhere.
One of the big imponderables in Heath amps, it seems to me, is how well
they were built in the first place. I was lucky, and the guy who built
mine seems to have known what he was doing -- the workmanship is first-class.
73, Pete N4ZR
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