Interesting thread. Someone made mention of the AC caps that were commonly used at the AC cord to ground on each side. I always thought they were for bypassing RF for TVI purposes. Is this true? In any case, I have had many leaky ones, one of which caused RFO Interesting thread. Someone made mention of the AC caps that were commonly used at the AC cord to ground on each side. I always thought they were for bypassing RF for TVI purposes. Is this true? In any case, I have had many leaky ones, one of which caused RFI whenever the transmitter was plugged in, and others that caused a hot chassis. I've been just removing them for years. Any reason to replace them, when replacing 2 wire with 3 wire cord? Ron K2RP
-----Original Message----- From: Boatanchors [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2019 4:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Article on changing from 2 to 3 wire power cords Old farm houses didn't have ground paths in the living rooms. So, we were probably safer there than in the barnyard with a couple of angry mules. Don W4DNR Quoting Wilson Lamb <[email protected]>: > BIZARRE! > If you left the ground disconnected or, if the ground were poor, > you'd have a real pile of hot stuff! > WL > ----- Hy Chantz <[email protected]> wrote: >> When I was a mere boy : ) CQ Magazine had an article called "The >> 22 Watt Monster". It was a low-power CW transmitter, whose >> schematic featured a grounded chassis and a one-wire plug. It took >> me a LONG time after pondering it to understand how it worked.... >> >> 73 >> >> W2HY >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Wilson Lamb" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: [email protected] >> Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2019 2:20:34 PM >> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Article on changing from 2 to 3 wire power cords >> >> And I thought I'd seen everything!!! >> That's a new one. >> WL >> ----- [email protected] wrote: >> > I recall listening to my uncle's shortwave radio and there was a >> > ground wire going outside and to the metal plumbing pipe. The AC >> > cord only had one blade on the plug. I think I was a teenager before >> > I understood how that worked. >> > Don W4DNR >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Boatanchors mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Boatanchors mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors >> _______________________________________________ >> Boatanchors mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors > > _______________________________________________ > Boatanchors mailing list > [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors _______________________________________________ Boatanchors mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors _______________________________________________ Boatanchors mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors
