I have an all metal box with my 20/30 kit and I don't have ground loops. Check your computer power supplier. No ground loops at all in all my 15 kits. 73
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Pete Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 01:57 AM 5/30/2008, you wrote: > >A while back we were tossing out a couple of External SCSI drives at > >work. I snatched them up and they've been sitting on the shelf. As I > >near the completion of my RXTX 6.2 I'm thinking one of these would be > >a nice home for the radio. Make a face plate for the front with > >switches and run the coax out the back. Mount the board where the > >drive used to be. I'd use the power supply in the hard drive > >enclosure for the 12v. Might have to toss a resistor across the 5V to > >get the switching supply to have a load I'm not sure. Can anyone think > >of why this would not be a good set up? > > > > Hank AB2XG > > I am in the process of doing the same thing with a serial port A/B > switchbox. The only rub is that it's generally recommended not to connect > the antenna common, power supply ground and sound card common together, to > avoid a ground loop. If you're not using connectors on the back panel of > the box you should be fine, but I've decided to use a sheet of plastic > replacing the back panel, so that I can just mount connectors to it. > > 73, Pete > > > -- Jose Bonanca (CT1aos)
