In XE-land, a Corona washer is a guy who washes out the Corona bottles after
they've been used.
"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure with no loss of
enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alek Petkovic [SMTP:vk6apk@eon.net.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 2:25 PM
> To: amps@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Amps] Alpha 86
>
> You don't want a dirty corona, do you?
>
> You gotta have a washer.
>
> It is a non conductive washer that performs the same task as the ribs on
> your spark plugs our power line insulators. I believe it goes on the
> solder tag of the switch prior to soldering the wire to it. It increases
> the distance a potential arc has to travel, thus making it less likely to
> occur.
>
> 73, Alek.
> VK6APK
>
> At 03:48 PM 5/03/2003 -0600, dj2001@mn.rr.com wrote:
>
>
> >What is a corona washer? Do I need or want one on my AL80A bandswitch?
> >
> >Dale K9VUJ
> >
> >
> >>Actually, I already have. I've seen the results of the corona-caused
> >>breakdown
> >>that you refer to there. I repaired an SB-1000 with a burned 160-meter
> tune
> >>padder contact. This contact was connected to the hot side of the
> PI-net, and
> >>arced to ground across the wafer. The moving contact was undamaged,
> proving
> >>that it had not been hot-switched. I put a corona washer on the
> replacement
> >>contact, and I had no further problems.
> >>
> >>73
> >>Vic K2VCO
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