On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 01:58:50 -0000, Barry Kirkwood wrote:
>Beats me why people buy high watts zeners to set the bias of amplifiers when
>there is a better and cheaper way.
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High power zeners are nearly bulletproof when it comes to brief
overloads, power surges, spikes, arcs, etc, etc. Your low power
transistor-and-zener approach seems a bit risky by comparison. And if
you use a really high power, high voltage transistor, what have you
saved? Power zeners are pretty cheap anymore.
KISS is Murphy's worst enemy. :-)
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Bill W6WRT
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