Greetings All,
This past week I recovered a Henry 1KD5 from an gargage sale/estate.
It appeared to be an 80M-15M model, that someone added 10M too.
The amp looked clean so I brought it up slow with a variac. Some initial
arcing from the HV wires which I quicky replaced.
However, up around the 3KV point I start hearing a steady hissing, with
some popping seen on the metering (Ip is flicking +/_ around zero).
I can't be sure but it sounds like it is somewhere on the HV filter
board, the one that is mechanically holding the caps and bleaders.
But nothing visible. Are those boards a phenolic or bakelite or ???
Any hints on how to safely trace this down?
The second issue is centered around the tube and tank.
The is a Pi-L output and albeit an alleged design improvement, tuning to
get power out has been totally elleusive to the point I thought the 3-500Z
was bad.
Looking at the cam shafted switched for the padder caps, I noticed that
the cam maybe off by one bandswitch step.
Can someone tell me if all three of the plate tune padder caps are
"Switched in" on 80M, then 2 on 40M, and one on 20M?
That is what the schematic suggests to me.
But this one has all three caps in on 80+40M, then 2 on 20M, and one on
15M. It's like someone rotated the cams by one rotation indent.
Back to the Pi-L tuning, does anyone have a better process for
setting/tuning a Pi-L tank (aside from the presets in the manual and web)?
Thanks in advance.
73 Mike K9MK/5
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