solid state kit

[Mark Libner-GUSR32]

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     Thank you Bill,
     
     You are right on! - 1000Watts is possible, OK 600Watts will do just 
     fine, via transistors that are on the market today. This is not new 
     technology - pickup any Motorola RF data book and higher voltage 
     devices are there for your pickin. Sell the switch mode power supply 
     built, would not want anyone getting fingers in the rough stuff - and 
     make the amp the kit.
     
     Sounds like time for TT to get creative.
     
     73's
     Mark NS9N


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Subject: RE: solid state kit
Author:  owner-tentec@akorn.net@INTERNET at #EMAIL
Date:    1/3/97 12:59 PM


>From:        rohre, rohre@arlut.utexas.edu 
>
>Reality Check Time re a 500 watt TRANSISTOR amplifier Kit!  Look at the 
>proposed 13.8 Volt operation.  Look at the OHMS LAW for this operation!  Who 
>builds such transformers?  Who can afford them?
     
Who says you have to use 13.8 volts? Why not 24, 28 or 50 volts? 
(Provided the high-power transistors can handle it)
     
As for transformers -- can you say switching power supplies? That solves 
part of the transformer problem.
     
>The only practical way to develop higher power is to use higher voltage 
>transistors or FETS.  Makes a pretty complicated kit.
     
Higher voltage transistors is in no way more complicated.
     
>Don't you wonder why the vast majority of Linear manufacturers are still 
>using Tube Finals? The power supply and tubes for that cost A LOT LESS than 
the
>solid state solution.
     
Tubes aren't getting any cheaper. At some point, we'll reach the 
watershed where a solid state devices are a better alternative. (We may 
have to wait until someone produces 500W MMICs....)
     
     
     
Bill Coleman, AA4LR           Mail: aa4lr@radio.org 
Quote: "Not in a thousand years will man ever fly!"
            -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
     
     
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