In message <199904271455.KAA00606@contesting.com>, Jon Ogden
<jono@enteract.com> writes
>
>Well, I promised to get back to folks with an update on my ICE 6M and 2M
>bandpass filters. OK, it's not directly amplifier related, but they go
>after my VHF bricks!
>
>On Friday I received 2 replacement 2M filters for the original 2 that
>failed. One passed the smoke test and is still working. The other
>failed. My local dealer told me to bring the failed unit by them and he
>would exchange it. So yesterday I got another 2M unit. Put it to the
>smoke test. Was working good for a bit. Then on about the third or 4th
>keydown test, it failed as well (the test is to keydown at full power
>(130 W) for about a minute). So that makes 5 filters I have tried. Four
>of them have failed!
>
>My dealer said that ICE has had a very difficult time getting good
>quality mica capacitors lately. It seems like the market is being eaten
>up by the computer manufacturers or something like that. So I am
>assuming that this quality issue is a temporary problem and will get
>resolved as soon as they find a reliable capacitor vendor.
Speaking in total ignorance of the product, it stinks of a design
problem to me.
Steve
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