[Amps] Acceptable ripple on high voltage plate power supply in tetrode amplifiers.

[Ron W4BIN]

   Łukasz SP4IT wrote:

> 2uF seems awfully small. From the calculations I did (200hz, 200mH
> inductance) it seems there will ve 300V of ripple at max current of 1A
> (10%!). Isn't that too much and how could the military transmitter work
> like this?

   I suspect the original circuit is a series resonate circuit at the 
ripple frequency.
This kind of circuit has a specific name that escapes me at the moment.
   (other than a low pass filter)
   The "minimize arc current" is an important aspect of this clever 
design, it is
not arc suppression.  This is more important for some tube construction 
than
others.
-- 
	Ron W4BIN