Hi Jon,
> For that matter, I've not thought this through, but how many RF cycles at
> VHF could take place in a matter of a few milliseconds? I guess you'd
> need to calculate the period, which is 1/F. At 144 MHz, this is 6.9
> nano-seconds. So if our event is on the order of nanoseconds you could
> get just a couple of RF cycles going which ain't gonna hurt anything. The
> point is that a short event as Rich claims is what happens isn't going to
> stress components beyond a breaking point especially when it is so short
> it doesn't even show up on the meter movements.
>
> At least that's the way I see it.
I used a five watt MOX resistor as a dummy load for a medical
pulse generator test fixture, and the generator ran 1200 watts of
pulse output with 65 uS pulses and a 0.1 percent duty cycle.
Even after weeks of operating, the resistor remained at 49.9 ohms.
Imagine how many photonic-parasitic-breakouts that would have
been!
73, Tom W8JI
w8ji@contesting.com
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