On 6/26/2014 3:07 PM, Rick Stealey wrote:
it works by
shorting the strike from the center conductor to the shell. But it stays
shorted,
All that's inside a polyphaser is a series capacitor and a gas tube to ground.
Mine are solid state. At least the one I dissected after failure was.
73
Roger (K8RI)
At least for incidental (whatever they're called) strikes, doesn't the gas tube
just conduct for a few microseconds and go back to life as normal? And able to
do this thousands of times?
If Pete had a larger strike, and the element sustained more damage I'd be very
interested in knowing what happened inside the little box to leave it in a
shorted or a low resistance mode.
A few years ago I made my own. A bunch of SO239s on a panel with gas tubes to
ground (about $2 each) and a series cap, or 2 or 3 on the 160 meter antenna.
So far so good.
Rick K2XT
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