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Re: [Amps] caps across rectifier diodes

To: "'Ian White GM3SEK'" <gm3sek@ifwtech.co.uk>, amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] caps across rectifier diodes
From: Doug Renwick <ve5ra@sasktel.net>
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:12:28 -0600
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Sorry? ... on the contrary.
I believe the answer from the archives is "capacitors prevent RF from
being rectified in the diodes, and generating harmonics."

Doug

The train doesn't stop here anymore. 

-----Original Message-----

Doug Renwick wrote:
>If a 1N5408 diode is considered a modern diode, then why does Ameritron
>go to the added expense of adding .01M 1KV caps across each diode?
>
Oh, you're going to be sorry you asked this...

Go to the Amps Archives at <http://tinyurl.com/c5knt9>
and then keep clicking and reading "next in thread".

We beat it to death but the issues and answers are all there.

Then just for laughs, one Amps member ended the topic with a bang: 
<http://tinyurl.com/ap87rl>

73 from Ian GM3SEK
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek


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