OK, I have the info I needed now.
My thanks to everyone who replied... I'll be trying it out this weekend...
73 Andy
http://www.gd0tep.com
-----Original Message-----
From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Jim Tonne
Sent: 11 September 2009 00:07
To: dezrat1242@yahoo.com; amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] RF deck plate tests (simulating HV?)
W6WRT wrote:
> Divide the plate voltage (under load) by the plate current in amps,
> then divide that by a factor of about 1.6. I say "about" because the
> exact factor depends on how the tube is biased. The closer the tube is
> biased toward class A, the smaller the factor and the closer toward
> class B the higher the factor. Most modern amps run class AB2 and will
> be somewhere between
> 1.5 and 1.7.
>
> Any recent ARRL handbook will have a further explanation.
Bill, that information is exact! But you stopped short of actually
answering the question.
I think you meant to also add on . . .
- Jim W4ENE
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