[AMPS] ARCING MORE

[Larry Molitor]

At 11:24 4/18/98 -0400, you wrote:

>There is absolutely nothing like a high voltage arc in an otherwise
>quiet shack to wake you up...and maybe send you running for the
>bathroom!  I used to save the destroyed strings of 1 amp 1kv piv diodes,
>pieces of fractured blocking caps, melted blades off of bread-slicers,
>exploded Millen HV connectors and other victims of WHATEVER it was that
>was working against me.  When I filled a couple of shoeboxes, I stopped
>saving the scrap.  I had sufficient proof that Murphy rules.
>
>73,
>
>-- 
>Ken K4XL

Ah, Yes! Orbiting amp meters; exploding chokes; plasma trails in ceramic;
molten balls of copper erupting from open frame plate transformers. I love
the smell of ozone in the hamshack!

WE NEED MORE POWER, SCOTTY!     AYE CAPTAIN, AND YE'LL HAVE IT SOON!


Larry - W7IUV
w7iuv@axtek.com
www.axtek.com/w7iuv/

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