What is the brand name or initials on those caps? Are they red?
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Clawson" <carlclawson@verizon.net>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 1:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Amps] LK500ZB (2 x 3-500Z), most likely cause of zap/arc?
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Carl [mailto:km1h@jeremy.mv.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 7:03 AM
>>
>> Some of those Teflon disc caps just cant
>> handle RF current well and I replaced mine with a pair of
>> ceramic doorknobs around 87-88.
>>
>
> Well I'll broadcast my ignorance here...I've never heard of a Teflon disc
> cap. The only Teflon RF caps I remember are the Russian "doorknobs" which
> are actually shaped more like a barber pole than a doorknob. The caps I
> replaced -- no idea if they're the originals -- were leaded discs labeled
> X5R so I took them to be ceramics. Two of them, about 1/4" thick and 5/8"
> diameter. Luckily a friend up the road had some similar, physically
> larger,
> ones in his junk box.
>
> Any words of wisdom from the group on pluses or minuses of Teflon RF caps?
> They hard to google for because you hit all the audiophile sites and I
> can't
> take too much of that.
>
> 73, Carl WS7L
>
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