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Here is one for Mike: OK BNC, bayonet connector (which it is) but so is a C connector, just bigger!


Oddly (like the threaded HN ) the type C RF connector  is another Amphenol special  I've never had to use in anger. 

I agree without a sense of scale a C looks like a BNC but the power handling is more like that of a 7-16 DIN - of which I have used a few on RF base-stations and so on.  I even have a badly toasted one somewhere as a reminder to respect the power of RF into a mismatch in systems where the PA does not fold back, but keeps on giving.


On the subject of touch voltages and things that look like a BNC but are not quite the same there are special safety versions of the BNC made for high voltage instruments like vacuum gauges that have a few kV on the wire (example ) The idea is you can take the cable off the wrong end of the rig by mistake and put your finger over the ends and not get bitten. Probably. For very good reasons a normal BNC cable will not plug into one.

Mike.

Here is one for Mike: OK BNC, bayonet connector (which it is) but so is a C connector, just bigger!


Oddly (like the threaded HN ) the type C RF connector  is another Amphenol special  I've never had to use in anger. 

I agree without a sense of scale a C looks like a BNC but the power handling is more like that of a 7-16 DIN - of which I have used a few on RF base-stations and so on.  I even have a badly toasted one somewhere as a reminder to respect the power of RF into a mismatch in systems where the PA does not fold back, but keeps on giving.


On the subject of touch voltages and things that look like a BNC but are not quite the same there are special safety versions of the BNC made for high voltage instruments like vacuum gauges that have a few kV on the wire (example ) The idea is you can take the cable off the wrong end of the rig by mistake and put your finger over the ends and not get bitten. Probably. For very good reasons a normal BNC cable will not plug into one.

Mike.