I left my antenna hooked up one winter night...and had a few components in my t/r switch & swr bridge zapped in both the K2 and the KPA100. One of those "exciting failures" of a cap in the 40m low pass filter keyed me into the problem!
http://udel.edu/~mm/ham/smoke/ That was over 2 years ago. I now vigilantly disconnect my antenna. :-) 73, Mike ab3ap Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: > That's a real mystery John. Don should know if others have experienced it. > It sure sounds like something in that environment. > ... > > Ron AC7AC > > -----Original Message----- > > ... > No more fried 1N5711's. I feel, though, that the failing capacitors may be > residual from some of the more exciting failures associated with no output > power control due to SWR sniffing circuits having been fried by a Zap.... > > 73 john ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
