[Amps] HV Connectors - Millen?

[Patrick Barthelow]

Perhaps an easy safety fix on the scary Millen on the back of Drake L-4B,etc, would be to find a hardware store short section  copper pipe or coupler with a close fitting diameter to the OD of the Millen.  When you hook up the amp, before screwing the HV millen on, slide the close fitting copper pipe sleeve over the connector, and a convenient length down the HV cable, and have a flexible braid with a high reliablity attachment to the Cu Sleeve, securely grounded to a lockwashered, chasis terminal adjacent to the Millen connector.  That way, if there were any latent defects to the Millen, The copper sleeve would provide a arc path to ground, and keep fingers, arms, wrists, etc from brushing against unknown condition plastic/ polyethelene insulators, carrying lethal danger, only small fractions of an inch away.

Best Regards,   
73, de Pat Barthelow AA6EG
 
> From: km1h at jeremy.mv.com
> To: jimw7ry at gmail.com; k0wa at swbell.net
> Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 11:23:47 -0400
> CC: amps at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Amps] HV Connectors - Millen?
> 
> And a defective one will bite you a lot easier than a PL-259 version. A few 
> back on the old AMPS reflector reported taking a fast trip across the room 
> from Millens. This subject comes up regularly.
> 
> Carl
> KM1H
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Because they are dangerous.
> >
> > 73
> > Jim W7RY
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Lee Buller <k0wa at swbell.net> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I have been reading this thread.... What I do not understand is why not
> >> use Millen HV Connectors. They were used for years. What is wrong with
> >> those?
> >>
> >> Lee - K0WA
> >>
> >>
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