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Re: [Amps] Low pass filters and saturated operation

Subject: Re: [Amps] Low pass filters and saturated operation
From: RCM <robrk@nidhog.net>
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2018 15:58:55 -0500
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> On Jan 1, 2018, at 09:39, Manfred Mornhinweg <manfred@ludens.cl> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> after my rather pointless post moments ago about the ICAS-CCS debate, here is 
> a somewhat more meaty year-starter for those of you who do enjoy hands-on 
> amplifier building.
> 
> I'm currently developing an SDR that uses an MRF1K50N in the final stage. My 
> intention is to run this in Envelope Tracking mode (ET), with a linear class 
> AB driver stage and running the final stage in saturated class-AB. I intend 
> to use a bank of relay-switched series-input low-pass filters, because such 
> filters offer a high impedance to harmonics. The LDMOSFET, running in 
> saturation, behaves closely like a voltage source, producing a voltage 
> waveform approaching a square wave, while the series-input low-pass filter 
> takes a roughly sine-shaped current. So this could be considered a form of 
> class-F operation.
> 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag

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