>>>More fundamental current goes through the resistors as the frequency goes
>>>up, because of the increasing reactance of the shunt inductor. I suspect
>>>that because most parasitic suppressors are 'designed' on an empirical
>>>basis, very little (if any) thought is geiven to the actual dissipation in
>>>the suppressor resistors.
>>
>>? Indeed, which is why I wrote "Calculating Suppressor Resistor
>>Dissipation ..." (March, 1989, *QST*).
>
>Did you take into account the fact that resistor dissipation goes down
>with increasing temperature?
>
? This is clearly not the case. Resistor dissipation is a function of
resistance and current squared.
Rich...
R. L. Measures, 805-386-3734, AG6K, www.vcnet.com/measures
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