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From: measures <2@vc.net>
To: Peter Chadwick <Peter_Chadwick@mitel.com>; AMPS <amps@contesting.com>;
'Steve Thompson' <rfamps@ic24.net>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Date: 03 August 2000 16:11
Subject: RE: [AMPS] Suppressors
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>>For what it's worth, my feeling is that the series inductance lowers the
main
>>parasitic frequency of the anode circuit below that of the grid circuit.
By
>>reducing the Q of the parasitic circuit, the amount of loading needed is
>>reduced., because the gain at the parasitic frequency is reduced.
>>
>This is not borne out in practice. Anode-resonance frequency is not
>changed much when the suppressor is shorted out.
In which case, the inductance contributed by the suppressor must be
insignificant in the system. This means that Q of the suppressor alone is
unimportant - the only thing that counts is its ESR vs frequency
characteristic.
Steve
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