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Re: [Amps] Tuner Loss

To: Roger (sub1) <sub1@rogerhalstead.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] Tuner Loss
From: Robert Harmon <k6uj@pacbell.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:22:15 -0700
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Roger,

That is a good point.  I have a Palstar AT5K and am aware of the 
"more C and less L"  but haven't been successful at finding more 
than one setting for a match.  I haven't really spent very much
time at it though.  I think I will do some more testing and see what I 
can do.  I guess it would be good to crank the rotary inductor down to
a minimum inductance and start from there ?  

Bob
K6UJ



On Mar 15, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Roger (sub1) wrote:

> On 3/13/2011 12:57 PM, Shane Youhouse wrote:
>> 
>> ALSO:  In reading up on 3-1000 and 4-1000 tubes, I noticed that one of
>> them actually goes into the output network losses, and Eimac puts them
>> about 10 percent.....  IE, they say the PLATE output power is about 10
>> percent GREATER than the AMPLIFIER output power.
>> 
>> SO, it made total sense, what Carl was saying...  On a 1500 watt amp, it
>> would be normal to see 150 + watts 'lost'.
> 
> The Palstar AT5K has a table in the manual that shows losses based on 
> the impedance the tuner is seeing plus how the tuner is used. It 
> demonstrates that losses can be as high as 16% (which is nearly all in 
> the rotary inductor), but can be reduced to 3% or less with proper 
> tuning.  More C and less L.
> 
> 73
> 
> Roger (K8RI)
> 
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