I installed a Polyphaser B50HU-C1 on the 80/40 Butternut HF-2V. It looks like it is now an open circuit. I'll verify that tomorrow when I got some daylight. Anyone experience that before ?? 73, Dick,
Hi Dick, My research shows the following for that polyphaser PPC-IS-B50-HU-C1 PolyPhaser Lightning Protector, UHF Female Connectors, Bulkhead Mount, 500 W at VHF, 50-700MHz I am not sure how much pow
I made a mistake on the Part Number, it's the -C0 HF 3KW version. Everything worked fine all day on 80 & 40, then I QRT'ed. Later that evening I fired up and the SWR was out of sight. I removed the P
I recently had the same problem. It turned out that the center pin on both of the connectors was not soldered. The pressure from the gas-discharge cartridge had held the center wire in contact initia
We had a bit of lightning yesterday. My antenna was disconnected in the shack but connected to a Polyphaser at the entry panel. This morning SWRs are high on all bands. I can hear, and be heard to an
Put in a barrel connector in place of the polyphaser and see. Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing lis
No, it's a known SUCCESS mode for a Polyphaser protector -- it works by shorting the strike from the center conductor to the shell. But it stays shorted, so either the protector or the element inside
it works by All that's inside a polyphaser is a series capacitor and a gas tube to ground. At least for incidental (whatever they're called) strikes, doesn't the gas tube just conduct for a few micro
I was aware of that, Jim, it was the stays shorted part that had me wondering. As it turns out, I had a flashover in an N-to-PL-259 connection at one end of my hardline. Spent some quality time out t
Pete, Are you saying the Polyphaser is still ok? That the low R was caused by a path within the adapter? Interesting. So we don't actually know if the gas tube fired or not then, do we? Because mayb
Hi Rick - actually, the flashover was out at the base of the tower, and the Polyphaser is in the shack window. I've had a few of these before, and they generally leave a little soot-like material on
The two or three that have blown here remained shorted. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@c
Author: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:09:37 -0400
On 6/26/2014 3:07 PM, Rick Stealey wrote: it works by shorting the strike from the center conductor to the shell. But it stays shorted, All that's inside a polyphaser is a series capacitor and a gas