Opportunity looms - RF carpet cleaners! Mike, N8TTR > On Nov 7, 2020, at 11:28 AM, Andy Durbin <a.dur...@msn.com> wrote: > > "Careful inspection of the air-spaced variable revealed a small bug between > the plates. It was carefully extracted and viewed under the microscope. It > was well charred!" > > For the detail oriented - bug was identified as attagenus pellio (carpet > beetle). They are common here in Arizona. They have a very high crush > resistance but it seems poor tolerance of high RF voltage. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attagenus_pellio > > 73, > Andy, k3wyc > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to mike.chown...@franciscan.org >
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