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Re: [Amps] switching power supply for tube amplifier

To: "Alex Malyava" <alex.k2bb@gmail.com>, <amps@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] switching power supply for tube amplifier
From: "Roger" <sub1@rogerhalstead.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:45:52 -0400
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There was an article in QST a year or two back on a complete legal limit amp 
using a switching supply.

Roger (K8I)

> Hi,
>
> After reading discussions of "light and powerful PA for expeditions" at
> Russian website (cqham.ru) I got this crazy idea of using switching power
> supply in it.
>
> What options we usually have - it is either 20-30 ponds of transformer or 
> we
> do AC rectification along with voltage multiplying. That might be good in 
> EU
> or some location with 220V, but here, in 120V-land we end up with way too
> many stages of voltage doubling...
> That made me thinking about switching power supply. We do have 200W PS in
> our radios or next to it working just fine. So, why not to make 1000V 1A 
> PS,
> or something like that?
> Assuming that the amp is for expedition, and suppose to be small and 
> light,
> I think it can be something like 500W out based on one (or two small)
> tube... If making 1500-2000 plate voltage is scary we can look for
> low-voltage tubes if there are any.
> I am pretty sure that regardless how bright your idea is it was already
> invented by somebody else, tried and buried :)
> It might be long time ago and current technology gives us some powerful
> switching FETs we didn't have 10 years ago...
>
> Am I totally wrong and don't know what I am talking about?
>
> Alex K2BB
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