[Amps] More on Toroidal Tank Circuit Issues

Bill Turner dezrat1242 at wildblue.net
Fri Mar 21 18:15:25 EDT 2014


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On 3/21/2014 1:08 PM, Jim W7RY wrote:
>   WHY is the 160 meter toroid getting so hot when using 10 meters?

REPLY:

Most likely it is self-resonant around 10 meters. Being unloaded, the 
circulating current and voltage can build up to very high levels.

73, Bill W6WRT



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