[Amps] Alpha 86

[Alek Petkovic]

You don't want a dirty corona, do you?

You gotta have a washer.

It is a non conductive washer that performs the same task as the ribs on 
your spark plugs our power line insulators.  I believe it goes on the 
solder tag of the switch prior to soldering the wire to it. It increases 
the distance a potential arc has to travel, thus making it less likely to 
occur.

73, Alek.
VK6APK

At 03:48 PM 5/03/2003 -0600, dj2001 at mn.rr.com wrote:


>What is a corona washer?  Do I need or want one on my AL80A bandswitch?
>
>Dale K9VUJ
>
>
>>Actually, I already have.  I've seen the results of the corona-caused 
>>breakdown
>>that you refer to there.  I repaired an SB-1000 with a burned 160-meter tune
>>padder contact. This contact was connected to the hot side of the PI-net, and
>>arced to ground across the wafer.  The moving contact was undamaged, proving
>>that it had not been hot-switched.  I put a corona washer on the replacement
>>contact, and I had no further problems.
>>
>>73
>>Vic K2VCO
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