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Re: [Amps] The Pin One Problem

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Subject: Re: [Amps] The Pin One Problem
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:15:25 -0700
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On 6/6/2013 2:22 PM, Peter Voelpel wrote:
There is not much ham gear on the market with a pin 1.
And in consumer audio equipment it is rather RCA then XLR.

The Pin One Problem applies to ALL equipment with a cable shield, and to both balanced and unbalanced wiring. See the tutorials. It is simply CALLED The Pin One Problem because a guy working in pro audio (Neil Muncy, ex-W3WJE, now SK) figured it out, and that's what he chose to call it.

Power supplies can have Pin One-like problems -- many Astrons do. The green wire is required by law to go to the chassis. In reality, it goes to the mounting lug of a 4-wire terminal strip, which, in all three of the big Astron linear's I owned, was insulated from the chassis by paint. It's been a while, but as I recall, another connection to that lug went to circuit common. In at least one of those units, the two major pieces of the chassis were also insulated from each other by paint. I've heard more than one anecdotal report of Astron's having RFI issues.

73, Jim K9YC
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