Yep -- it's a good design, too. It has a four-position rotary type main switch
that is arranged so you can't get to the 3000/4000V position without first
going through the position that has a *BIG* resistor in series with the input
to the HV transformer. It's actually a heating element that screws into a
standard lightbulb socket. It goes Off -->HV w/resistor --> CW 3kV --> SSB
4kV.
An improvement that I'd like to add to mine is outboard manually operated
Blower/Fils/Standby switches sequentually arranged so it can't be keyed unless
all switches are on. That's right, no standby switch on this one -- it's
either on & inline, or totally off. I also hate that I can't turn off my amp
and let the blower run for a while...
Joe, N3JI
"R.Measures" <r@somis.org> wrote:
Dan -- I have never measured the fil V in an AL-811. The only RF-Tx
amplifiers that do not benefit from a step-start are those that already
have one. The Henry 3K-A is one example.
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