[Amps] Design VS parasitic

[Ron Youvan]

> Even with the solder flowing around the connections, can you be
> assured you have a good connection?  I rather doubt it. Then you have a
> rather severe thermal cycling at this point as I have seen the nichrome get
> red hot in his amp. I suppose the inter-metallic connection in the solder
> joints fail. The nichrome wire supplied seems somewhat small in diameter for
> a 1 A plate current.

   That's why I love the idea of using large wire wound resistors as the
coil, the nichrome is "factory welded."  I shall try to obtain current
carrying capacity ratings of proposed resistors for my projects,
although I'm not much of a believer in putting "peaking coils" in my
RF amplifiers.
    Ron  KA4INM - The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
                  [Margaret Thatcher]
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