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[AMPS] resonated input chokes

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Subject: [AMPS] resonated input chokes
From: W8JI@contesting.com (Tom Rauch)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:34:24 -0400
Hi Peter,

From:                   Peter Chadwick <Peter_Chadwick@mitel.com>
To:                     "'amps'" <amps@contesting.com>
Subject:                RE: [AMPS] resonated input chokes
Date sent:              Tue, 1 Jun 1999 10:32:36 +0100 

> 
> Tom says:
> 
> >I made the choke EXACTLY resonant by following the guidelines in 
> >Bill Orr's Handbook.
> 
> My understanding is that is what you DON'T do! I understand that it should
> be tuned a bit HF, so that it looks like a higher inductance, thus
> maintaining constant current in the choke. It's useful to use Variac for
> the commissioning stage so you can wind it all up very gently until you've
> got it tuned right.

That's what I learned, the hard way. After almost being killed by 
technical information Orr's handbook, I tossed it in the trash.


73, Tom W8JI
w8ji@contesting.com

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