Re: [Amps] Fw: PARALLEL CAPS IN OUTPUT

[Jim W7RY <w7ry@centurytel.net>]

That's ok... My 1KV load capacitor will arc (acting just like a spark 
gap....) across before the 3 KV padders will.
BTW I never have had my 1KV loading cap arc. EVER! And I contest on RTTY 
with it.
73
Jim W7RY

On 12/4/2013 12:01 PM, Bill Turner wrote:
> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:          (may be snipped)
> > On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 10:51 AM, peter chadwick <g8on@fsmail.net> wrote:
> >
> > If one is to believe Philip H. Smith in 'Electronic Applications
> of the Smith Chart', McGraw-Hill 1969, page 6, Fig 1.3, the maximum voltage
> appearing on a lossless transmission line with an SWR of infinity is twice
> the voltage when matched.
>
> REPLY:
>
> I find that hard to believe but I can't actually disprove it.
>
> However I guarantee that if you transmit high power into an unterminated
> coax, the Tesla Coil effect in your output tank will cause some extremely
> high voltages to appear across the load cap (and everywhere else in the
> tank).
>
> And that is what the discussion is about.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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