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Re: [Amps] PSU design question

To: "Roger" <sub1@rogerhalstead.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] PSU design question
From: "Carl" <km1h@jeremy.mv.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 11:25:24 -0500
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Getting 6M type acceptance is expensive and Steve doesnt sell that many 
anyway to justify.

I just got thru converting a LK-800C to 6M. It uses three 3CPX800's and with 
150W drive and 3KV Ep it sure makes a 5 kW Bird slug move far right!

Carl


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger" <sub1@rogerhalstead.com>
To: "Carl" <km1h@jeremy.mv.com>
Cc: <ka4inm@tampabay.rr.com>; "amps" <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Amps] PSU design question


>
>
> Carl wrote:
>> Google is still your best friend. One has to be into VHF/UHF to know 
>> about Steve's products.
>>
> I have a link to his site on my page. What I haven't figured out is why 
> the 6-meter amp is export only when it's a legal limit amp with the same 
> tubes as the other amps unless it hasn't been approved yet.
> Man, just think, a pair of 3CPX-800s for local packet! <:-))
> 73
>
> Roger (K8RI)
>> Carl
>> KM1H
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Ron Youvan" <ka4inm@tampabay.rr.com>
>> To: "amps" <amps@contesting.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 7:46 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Amps] PSU design question
>>
>>
>>
>>>>     I float B- above ground with roughly 125 ohms of R, in one case
>>>> (separate PSU & RF deck) with 2 separate 250 ohm 25w Rs, one in each
>>>> chassis, as well as a 1N5408 & .01 3kv cap on each side as well a la 
>>>> Lunar
>>>> Link.
>>>>
>>>   I have never seen this and I do not understand a reason for this 
>>> practice with one exception,
>>> that being where a tube element is grounded and that element needs 
>>> monitored and protected, such as
>>> a klystron where the "body" (cavities) are grounded but must not have 
>>> more than 100 mA of current.
>>>   I am not sure if this design isn't providing grid bias inadvertently 
>>> in some amplifier designs,
>>> bias that might vary for varying plate current.
>>>   I can't recall what a "la Lunar Link" is, I don't know if I ever heard 
>>> of it.
>>> -- 
>>>    Ron  KA4INM - Remember, the government cannot give anything to anyone
>>>                   that they have not first taken away from someone else. 
>>> (like you and me)
>>>
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