Thanks for the reply, but I don't think I follow.
Guess I had interpreted the spec sheet as meaning that, if you configure the
tube in class B grounded grid and apply HV of 2000v, you should expect to see
400ma of plate current and 500 watts of peak "useful" output.
I am just trying to figure out if this homebrew amp, which does not have any
manual or detailed info, is working as it should. If the spec sheet means what
I think it means, it seems the amp is in the ballpark.
73, Bill NZ5N
>Spec sheets don't know anything about load or no load. If it says for
>example, 3000 volts at 500 mA, that's what it means.
>73, Bill W6WRT
--- On Sat, 5/22/10, Bill Dzurilla <billdz.geo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Bill Dzurilla <billdz.geo@yahoo.com>
> Subject: How to read the 3-500Z spec sheet?
> To: amps@contesting.com
> Date: Saturday, May 22, 2010, 10:39 AM
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at the spec sheet for the 3-500Z at
> http://www.scottbecker.net/tube/sheets/088/3/3-500Z.pdf
>
> At the top of the second pages, it gives numbers for
> various parameters at different levels of high voltage
> (3000, 2500, 2000, and 1500). Are these voltages at
> load or no-load? And how do Single-Tone DC Plate
> Current and Peak Envelope Useful Output Power correlate with
> key down plate current and output?
>
> The reason I ask is because I picked up a homebrew 6m amp
> with a single 3-500Z, which uses a power transformer from an
> SB-200. Key down power output is 400w. Assuming
> the amp's meters are accurate, no-load plate voltage is
> 2300v, and plate voltage under full load is 1950v.
> Plate current with no drive is 100ma and plate current with
> full drive is .52a. About 40 watts of drive produces
> the full 400w out. Further increases in drive, up to
> 100w, do not increase output.
>
> Judging from the spec sheet's 2000v table, my guess is that
> the amp is performing as well as it can with this power
> supply. I know that a converted AL-80B with a single
> 3-500Z can produce 900w or so on 6m, but it has a 3000v
> p/s.
>
> Do you think it would be OK to run this amp at the full
> 400w in WSJT (continuous carrier) modes?
>
> 73, Bill NZ5N
>
>
>
>
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