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Re: [Amps] filament supply options

To: "R.Measures" <r@somis.org>, n8de@thepoint.net
Subject: Re: [Amps] filament supply options
From: Bill Fuqua <wlfuqu00@uky.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:40:38 -0400
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Since most all high current 5 volt DC power supplies have a positive output, you may be one step ahead. Often the cathode needs to be made slightly positive to reduce idling current and your effective bias voltage would be 2.5 volts unless you float the supply and use a resistive divider (say 1ohm for each resistor) and ground the tap so that the filament would have +2.5 on one side and -2.5 volts on the other.
My main worry about using an active (switching or linear) DC supply would be how will it perform in the very high RF fields? The RF could cause it to do some strange things. Such as either shutting down or even worse going to max voltatge.


73
Bill wa4lav

At 05:34 AM 4/26/2004 -0700, R.Measures wrote:

On Apr 26, 2004, at 4:04 AM, Don Havlicek wrote:

I believe you meant to say:

"Hot-R is 8.3 times as much as Cold-R"

ð Correct. Thanks for the heads up, Don. _______________________________________________ Amps mailing list Amps@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/amps

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