[TowerTalk] Shunt feeding tower damages rotor

[Paul Baldock]

I have an M2 rotor at the top of my 130ft Tower fed with shielded 
cable, and a TIC ring at 92ft fed with non-shielded cable. I shunt 
feed the tower for 160M. All as has gone well for a couple of years.

I just changed the top antenna (much more capacitance) and had to 
re-tune the tower shunt feed. This of course changes the 
voltage/current distribution in the tower.

Having put 1.5KW in to the tower it seems that I damaged the TIC 
Ring. At the tower the TIC ring consists of a floating motor with 
.1uF to ground (the tower). The feed back pot is also floating with 
.01uFcaps to ground (the tower). From measurements on the ground it 
appears that  I have damaged one or both of the Pot Caps to ground to 
cause them to be leaky.

The question is, should I just remove the Pot Caps, or replace them 
with beefier caps, or stop shunt feeding the tower.

Thanks

- Paul  KW7Y