Matched Pills?

**coolbreeze** · 05-02-2012, 06:32 AM

If that is so. Go remove yours and key up. Better have pills ready

**High Voltage Mobile NJ** · 05-02-2012, 06:39 AM

hahahahhhahah fooooooooooo 10 rogerrrrrr.

**noisemaker** · 05-02-2012, 08:41 AM

Originally Posted by High Voltage Mobile NJ

lol you crazy breeze . the only thing the 10 ohm resister is used for is to let you no when a pill is toastedddddddddd . i thought you new that broooooo

Not all the time! I had a few flaky pills that did not blow that infamous 10ohm smoke, but were drawing amperage (15a to be exact) in stand-by. Bottom line- bad pills but no smoke. You dont really need the 100ohm'ers on the combiners either, but as breeze has stated they are there for diagnostics. Those will tell the tale of an imbalance. I have a 1x4 that doesnt have 1 match in the entire box- all mismatched, old style, red dots, all different and that box is rockin! As matter of fact the entire box is made of used parts! Im sure it would run more efficient with matched, but its working good and im broke so its staying the way it is!!! Lol

**High Voltage Mobile NJ** · 05-02-2012, 04:22 PM

yeahhhhhhhh if ya hook up power backwards to. or the dam pills are not all the way down properly seated to the heat sink . cocaine charly boxes are very typical for that shit . he uses wood screws to hold them down . or if someone drove past you keying up next to going 111111111111 poof . lol lol lol

**coolbreeze** · 05-02-2012, 05:37 PM

shakes head

10 ohms only blow if you are keyed when the pill blows. if its right as you get off they wont blow, and wont burn the resistor after that. weird but it is what happens

**john doe** · 05-03-2012, 09:27 PM

heres my take on this .pills dont have to have the same lot number or be "matched" persay ,but when a pill blows you should replace both pills on that transformer .you dont want to put a new pill next to a weaker old pill.will it work?sure,but for how long is anyone's guess .
its like putting a weak battery and a new battery in a flashlight ,the old weak battery will fail that much faster now .whereas had you replaced both with new they would both last the same amount of time .