[AMPS] Constant Voltage (Sola) Transformer wanted

[Ian White, G3SEK]

Tom Rauch wrote:
>
>> This is for my remote station where the rig is over 2000' from the
>> transformer and even with thick cables the volt drop is too much.
>
>If the application is for a capacitor input supply, good luck! You will
>need to restore the sine wave better than a sola transformer does,
>and have to use a greatly oversized regulator because of the peak
>current demand at the crest of the sine wave.

Tom's right - the CVT would probably need to be several times more 
massive than the B+ transformer.

This looks like a case for either a regulated B+ supply which can 
compensate for changes in both mains voltage and load current (there 
have been a few articles published - look in the archives of this list) 
or else a high-voltage transmission system.

I remember visiting the station of a certain K2 who owned most of a hill 
but lived only part-way up. He had a number of VHF shacks farther up the 
hill, fed with mains via a pair of back-to-back pole transformers. The 
HV wires were some kind of insulated cable, just draped over the 
blueberry bushes... which the public were invited to come in and pick 
from.

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73 from Ian G3SEK          Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
                           'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
                            http://www.ifwtech.com/g3sek

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