[AMPS] Need HV connectors

[Steve Katz]

I still use Millen 7 kV connectors.  Don't know if they're still being
manufactured, or everything I find is surplus, but it's not difficult to
find them.  Last batch purchased from Henry Radio (the amp factory) a few
years back...

WB2WIK/6

"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem." --
Henry Kissinger

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jerry Flanders [SMTP:jflanders2@home.com]
> Sent:	Monday, November 19, 2001 8:24 AM
> To:	amps@contesting.com
> Subject:	[AMPS] Need HV connectors
> 
> 
> What kind of socket/plug connectors are available for HV these days? I 
> remember years ago guys just used common stuff like the "UHF" coax series,
> 
> and also Millen made a commercial one.
> 
> I need to run a 3.5KV lead between my AL-1200 and this amp I am checking 
> out. I would just use some coax and "UHF" connectors, but I am bothered by
> 
> having a connector loaded with HV that looks like an innocent antenna 
> connection. The HV lead might become permanent.
> 
> If the connector does not provide for the ground side like the coax 
> connector would, I need to address the safety aspect of that as well. As I
> 
> recall, the old Millen one did not insure a ground by itself.
> 
> 
> Jerry W4UK
> 
> 
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