[Amps] RF deck plate tests (simulating HV?)

[Andy GD0TEP]

OK, I have the info I needed now.

My thanks to everyone who replied... I'll be trying it out this weekend...

73 Andy
http://www.gd0tep.com


-----Original Message-----
From: amps-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Jim Tonne
Sent: 11 September 2009 00:07
To: dezrat1242 at yahoo.com; amps at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] RF deck plate tests (simulating HV?)


W6WRT wrote:

> Divide the plate voltage (under load) by the plate current in amps, 
> then divide that by a factor of about 1.6. I say "about" because the 
> exact factor depends on how the tube is biased. The closer the tube is 
> biased toward class A, the smaller the factor and the closer toward 
> class B the higher the factor. Most modern amps run class AB2 and will 
> be somewhere between
> 1.5 and 1.7.
>
> Any recent ARRL handbook will have a further explanation.

Bill, that information is exact!  But you stopped short of actually
answering the question.

I think you meant to also add on . . .

- Jim W4ENE


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