[Amps] Plate Bypass Capacitor

[Bill, W6WRT]

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:05:32 +0000, Manfred Mornhinweg <manfred at ludens.cl>
wrote:

>
>No, because the swing you describe is all the way to the negative and 
>positive PEAKS of the RF waveform. The RMS value of the RF voltage is 
>0.707 of the peak voltage, and so the RMS will be close to 0.7 times the 
>DC supply.

REPLY:

You are correct, my oops. I was thinking peak voltage on the plate and you were
talking RMS.

However, your example of 600 VRMS on the plate of a 6146 grossly exceeds the
manufacturer's ratings. RCA rates the 6146 at 400 VDC absolute max, which
corresponds to a RMS max of about 280 V when properly tuned. I realize your
example was just for discussion but we might as well discuss real world. :-)

73, Bill W6WRT