Just curious, but where ..."elsewhere"... have they been discussed ? They
are marked Made In USA (and I remember the Usa, Japan scandal).
73, Dick, w1KSZ
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Carl <km1h@jeremy.mv.com> wrote:
> Guaranteed Chinese, that fraud has been discussed elsewhere.
>
> Carl
> KM1H
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alek Petkovic" <vk6apk@bigpond.com>
> To: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@frontier.com>
> Cc: "Amps" <amps@contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 5:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Amps] 811H pops fuses
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>
> Found the caps I bought.
>
> See Ebay item number 190875604650
>
> 73, Alek
> VK6APK
>
> On 21/01/2014 6:38 AM, Alek Petkovic wrote:
>
>> Yeah, that's right Tom.
>>
>> Its the same with the AL-1500 model. More caps, higher voltage but they
>> are still right on or over the limit of 450V per cap.
>>
>> I changed mine for higher value, 500V jobs. I was able to fit 16 caps in
>> the space where the 8 originals were. They are arranged as a string of 8 x
>> 2 x 330uF/105°C caps in parallel. That's 8 x 660uF in series to give me
>> 82.5uF at 4000V.
>> There was nothing wrong with the 8 x 220uF caps. I just got nervous
>> running them that high.
>>
>> I bought them from the US, on the bay. They are probably cheap charlie
>> ones but they do the job really well.
>>
>> 73, Alek.
>> VK6APK
>>
>> On 21/01/2014 12:53 AM, Tom Osborne wrote:
>>
>>> Vic said:
>>>
>>> Ameritron's prices are reasonable and they have shipped within a day
>>>> every
>>>> time I've ordered parts from them.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The problem is - the Ameritron ones are rated at 450 volts. That seems
>>> like
>>> they are operating at pretty much their max. This one has about
>>> 1800-1900
>>> plate voltage. Four of the Ameritrons are 1800 volts rating (unless they
>>> have a built-in safety factor). 73
>>> Tom W7WHY
>>>
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