[Boatanchors] Article on changing from 2 to 3 wire power cords

[The Pollacks]

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:boatanchors-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
donroden at hiwaay.net
Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2019 4:19 PM
To: boatanchors at puck.nether.net
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 <infomet at embarqmail.com>:

> 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 <chantz at well.com> 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" <infomet at embarqmail.com>
>> To: donroden at hiwaay.net
>> Cc: boatanchors at puck.nether.net
>> 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
>> ----- donroden at hiwaay.net 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
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