[Amps] 811H pops fuses

[Alek Petkovic]

No, that's K4POZ on qth.com. He was good friends with W4ZT (SK) and is 
apparently selling his stocks. I believe that they are good quality caps.

73, Alek
VK6APK

On 21/01/2014 11:25 AM, Jim W7RY wrote:
> Is this the same guy that sells them on QTH.com?
>
> 73
> Jim W7RY
>
>
> On 1/20/2014 5:37 PM, Carl wrote:
>> Guaranteed Chinese, that fraud has been discussed elsewhere.
>>
>> Carl
>> KM1H
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alek Petkovic" <vk6apk at bigpond.com>
>> To: "Tom Osborne" <w7why at frontier.com>
>> Cc: "Amps" <amps at contesting.com>
>> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 5:51 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Amps] 811H pops fuses
>>
>>
>> Found the caps I bought.
>>
>> See Ebay item number 190875604650
>>
>> 73, Alek
>> VK6APK
>>
>> On 21/01/2014 6:38 AM, Alek Petkovic wrote:
>>> Yeah, that's right Tom.
>>>
>>> Its the same with the AL-1500 model. More caps, higher voltage but 
>>> they are still right on or over the limit of 450V per cap.
>>>
>>> I changed mine for higher value, 500V jobs. I was able to fit 16 
>>> caps in the space where the 8 originals were. They are arranged as a 
>>> string of 8 x 2 x 330uF/105°C caps in parallel. That's 8 x 660uF in 
>>> series to give me 82.5uF at 4000V.
>>> There was nothing wrong with the 8 x 220uF caps. I just got nervous 
>>> running them that high.
>>>
>>> I bought them from the US, on the bay. They are probably cheap 
>>> charlie ones but they do the job really well.
>>>
>>> 73, Alek.
>>> VK6APK
>>>
>>> On 21/01/2014 12:53 AM, Tom Osborne wrote:
>>>> Vic said:
>>>>
>>>>> Ameritron's prices are reasonable and they have shipped within a 
>>>>> day every
>>>>> time I've ordered parts from them.
>>>>
>>>> The problem is - the Ameritron ones are rated at 450 volts. That 
>>>> seems like
>>>> they are operating at pretty much their max.  This one has about 
>>>> 1800-1900
>>>> plate voltage.  Four of the Ameritrons are 1800 volts rating 
>>>> (unless they
>>>> have a built-in safety factor).  73
>>>> Tom W7WHY
>>>>
>>>>
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