[Amps] Checking Plate Choke resonance

Bill, W6WRT dezrat1242 at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 13 19:43:32 PDT 2009


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On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:07:55 -0500, "Jeff Blaine AC0C"
<keepwalking188 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>I am a bit confused on this.
>
>It's been a while - but I was thinking that I read one time on RM's site 
>about creating an intentional parallel resonance on the filament choke. 
>That's a different part, but it seems the principle would be the same.

REPLY:

Parallel resonance is not a problem if the components can handle it. In the
filament (input) circuit, the power is much less and the choke wires are much
larger (typ 12-14 gage) than in the plate circuit.

73, Bill W6WRT


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