spring loaded thing to shove the wire through for a power supply? nothing
to me I'd even want to think about there. I'll look in to that, thanks for
the heads up. I want something I can screw down on the wire somehow and hold
it well.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: QRP note
> Hi John.
>
> The one that I looked at the Rochester hamfest had terminals that had
> aspring loaded affair with a hole that you had to shove the wire
> through. The MFJ posts had knurled caps that you could unthread from the
> posts and since I use the ring-type wire ends, I could just slide them
> over
> the posts and crank the knurled caps back down on them and they made a
> really secure connection. They also have a small set of spring terminals
> for connecting lighter duty stuff with stripped leads, and the caps on the
> initially described binding posts have receptacles in them that will
> accept
> bana plugs. The binding posts/terminals on the MFJ supply are really
> pretty versatile. I might have gone with the Astron otherwise, but now
> that I have the MFJ supply, I'm glad that I went with it. It's been a
> really good power supply.
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
> At 08:20 AM 1/9/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>>OK, what's with the terminals on the astron? I'm curious because I had a
>>Kenwood supply once that was a switcher, I blew 2 of them up, and they had
>>terminals, I didn't like because I couldn't find loops for them for the
>>end
>>of the wire, the fasteners, nuts what ever those were, didn't come
>>completely off so I had to take big wire end loops and cut them to have a
>>u
>>shape instead of completely round, are they the same on the Astron
>>switching supplies? I much prefer they come all the way off and have a
>>lock
>>washer to hold them tight.
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 12:43 AM
>>Subject: Re: QRP note
>>
>>
>> > Hi John.
>> >
>> > I looked at the Astron as well. The main reason I put it back and
>> > bought
>> > the MFJ supply was because I didn't like the type of terminals on the
>> > Astron. They just looked a lot harder to work with than the MFJ, so I
>> > bought the MFJ instead. Generally, I haven't had very good luck with
>> > most
>> > MFJ things I've bought, but so far the power supply has worked well.
>> > So
>> > has my antenna analyzer.
>> >
>> > 73, de Lou K2LKK
>> >
>
> Louis Kim Kline
> A.R.S. K2LKK
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