Amps
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [Amps] Grid resonance

To: <amps@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] Grid resonance
From: "Steve Thompson" <g8gsq@ic24.net>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 07:57:29 +0100
List-post: <mailto:amps@contesting.com>
Steve Thompson wrote:

Sorry, should have said this was on a 8877.

> A had a few minutes before leaving the office yesterday, so I fired
> up the network analyser. I made some rough, not precision,
> measurements and, as these were done on a cold tube lying on the
> bench I'm uncertain as to how useful they are.
> 
> I measured the impedance between the grid ring and one cathode pin.
> At low frequencies it's capacitive. As the frequency increases the
> inbuilt inductance comes into play and series resonance occurs at
> around 250-270MHz. The impedance then goes inductive until parallel
> resonance at about 1.7GHz. 
> 
> I also looked at feedthrough, feeding into the cathode from a 50 ohm
> source and measuring into a 50 ohm load at the anode. From 1-2000MHz
> the feedthrough
> is around -60dB except for around 250MHz and 1.7GHz where it comes up
> to around -45dB.
> 
> Steve
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Amps mailing list
> Amps@contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/amps


_______________________________________________
Amps mailing list
Amps@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/amps

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>