Feed 110 through a variac or 100 watt lightbulb to the normal 220 connection.
Don WA4NPL
Quoting "Donald Fox" <taurusshoguy@yahoo.com>:
>
> First off, thanks to those who continue to offer insight.experience
> both on and off list.
>
> That being said, I finally got the time to do some poking around,
> and boy does it need a cleaning inside and out. The PO advised that
> when it went belly up some 2 years ago, he pushed it into his garage
> and left it sit since he had other amps at hand.
>
> An error on my part was intially reporting that the front panel does
> is not have the 10m bandswitch position marked. Upon a closer look
> it does.
>
> A quick test between the HV connector and ground showed well over
> 100k resistance with the reading going upward. I presume this woul
> be the filter cap charging. I also noted that primary terminal #1 on
> the HV xformer looked a bit overheated at some point. The insulation
> near the connector is brittle and crumbly.
>
> The RF deck interior looks very good despite quite a bit of dust
> which I promptly removed. An interesting item of note it that the
> coil that comes from the roller inductor is secured to the fixed cap
> bank behind the 8 DC blocking caps. The manual I have shows this
> coil attached in front of the DC caps. I wonder if this makes a
> difference, or possibly is a production update of some kind.
>
> Stil have not applied and AC yet. I was considering firing it up on
> 120 instead of 240 the first time as a safety feature. Does anyone
> see any issues with that thought?? This would be sans tube of course?
>
> Don
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