[Amps] More Capacitors vs LC filters

Alek Petkovic vk6apk at bigpond.com
Thu Apr 19 16:37:52 PDT 2012


On 20/04/2012 7:14 AM, Ron Youvan wrote:
>     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.
Yep. That's the only comfort I have. Hi hi.

Alek. VK6APK

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