[Amps] Pulse tuning

Bill, W6WRT dezrat1242 at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 23 04:22:16 PDT 2010


ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:57:11 -0500, donroden at hiwaay.net wrote:

>If you have to pulse, you are relying too much on power supply capacitors.
>Just build it "large" and don't worry about pulsing.
>Don WA4NPL

REPLY:

I agree. If you HAVE to pulse to avoid damage, you amp is running on the
edge of self-destruction anyway. Beef it up so it can run full carrier
for at least five minutes at a time with no sweat. Then you can tune it
up the 'right' way. 

Bill, W6WRT


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