[TowerTalk] Circuit Board Question

Steve Hunt steve at karinya.net
Sat Aug 2 16:40:35 EDT 2014


You're correct that any power dissipation due to the voltage will be 
twice the matched case dissipation. But I thought - perhaps mistakenly - 
we were still discussing voltage breakdown?

Steve G3TXQ



On 02/08/2014 21:25, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
>
> Yes, we all know this, but power loss is proportional to the
> SQUARE of the voltage, so it is doubled for 2:1 SWR in the worst
> case.  Am I missing something?
>
> Rick N6RK
>
>



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