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Title: what is this thing?
Post by: Opcom on November 28, 2008, 12:33:34 PM
a 2-lead capacitor looking thing promises super modulation from a CB. 2 leads.. what is it really?

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Title: Re: what is this thing?
Post by: flintstone mop on November 28, 2008, 01:10:18 PM
What a crock!!!!!!!!
They don't say where on the circuit board you mount this thing. All of the familiar no-brain CB terms, though


Fred


Title: Re: what is this thing?
Post by: Steve - WB3HUZ on November 28, 2008, 01:21:29 PM
As someone once said, "Probably some piece of apparatus used in the southern states to beat monkeys with."


Title: Re: what is this thing?
Post by: KF1Z on November 28, 2008, 01:31:02 PM
It IS a capacitor....

nothing more.


Title: Re: what is this thing?
Post by: W1EUJ on November 28, 2008, 01:40:06 PM
looks like a current limiter


Title: Re: what is this thing?
Post by: ka3zlr on November 28, 2008, 02:25:13 PM
....I know what it isn't...


Title: Re: what is this thing?
Post by: W1ATR on November 28, 2008, 06:52:25 PM
OMG, you guys don't know what your missing. I put one of these across the grids of some 833a modulators driving a pair of 6146 finals with 3800 on the plates and now she's swinging 6000 bird watts with 400 watts of carrier. :P

The part itself is a disk of depleted unobtainium.
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