On Tue, 10 May 2005 09:07:17 -0700, "John Smith"
wrote:

One important use of the "coil" is a "choke", I'd hate to try to get a
signal though a direct short of the center conductor to the shield...

Hi Brett,

So you have a choke.

You have LEDs.

You have a current limiter (that seems to fail).

OK, so why the direct connection then?

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC