[Amps] More Capacitors vs LC filters

Ron Youvan ka4inm at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 16:14:54 PDT 2012


   Alek Petkovic wrote:

> I get very nervous having my Ameritron AL-1500 sitting here less than 2
> ft away from me, especially at start up time.

> It has 8 x 450V electrolytics in series and the plate voltage meter reads
> exactly 3600V. They are running at 100%!

> 73, livin' on the edge, Alek. VK6APK

   There is a difference between the "maximum" and the "working" Voltage rating of a capacitor.
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