TopBand: Non Inductive Resistors

[Garry & Yelena]

Another useful product line is heat-sinkable film resistors from Caddock
Electronics, Inc. These were covered in detail by Rick Littlefield,
K1BQT in the Quarterly Devices feature of Communications Quarterly,
Summer, 1995.

The Kool-Tab MP800 series components come in 8, 16, 20, 25 and 50 watt
ratings in TO-126, TO-220 and TO-220 with mounting tab packages in
values from .02 to 10K ohms, and are rated according to those packages.

MP820 and MP850 50 ohm devices are shown with VSWR<1.1 at frequencies
from 100 to 400 MHz. Their dissipation ratings vary from 2.25W in free
air to 6.5/7 W  with large extruded heatsinks to 14W on a 5x7x2"
aluminum chassis.

These components appear to be very useful for HF/VHF applications! I was
introduced to these parts by George Badger, W6TC of Svetlana Electron
Devices as possible passive grid terminations for a grid-driven AB1
linear.

I have no connection with either Caddock or Svetlana.

Garry, NI6T



km1h @ juno.com wrote:
> 
> I have been paging thru the new Newark catalog and came across a few
> interesting items that are "new" to me.
> 
> Ohmite 50 and 100W non inductive resistors, including 50 Ohms. The caveat
> is that they give an inductance rating!  That would lead me to assume
> that they are not  HF RF rated but maybe for LF, audio and switcher
> supplies. Anyway the 50W is rated at  0.8uh and the 100W at 1.6uh.
> Has anyone experimented with these at HF, tuning out the XL, etc. ? The
> prices are a reasonable $9.19 and $16.81 respectively.
> 
> The other item were non inductive Cermet power resistors by Spectrol.
> They are available in 500, 1K, 2K Ohm, etc and rated at 20W. Also rated
> at 1KV and 5KV dielectric strength. Made for PS use and the
> "Telecommunications Industry".
>  Again probably not RF rated but just maybe useable as Beverage
> terminators with a simple capacitor tweak. At only  $1.25  each they may
> be the answer to blown 1 and 2W carbons from static and coupled RF from
> the TX antenna.
> 
> 73...Carl   KM1H.
> 

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