[TowerTalk] checking balun phasing

Steve London n2icarrl at gmail.com
Fri Mar 17 13:13:36 EDT 2017


If you have two identical baluns, you can match the phasing this way:

- Connect a signal generator to a tee-connector. Connect each side of 
the tee to the input of each balun.
- Connect the outputs of the two baluns in series, leaving you with two 
wires - one connected to balun "A" and the other to balun "B".
- Connect the 2 wires to an oscilloscope or RF voltmeter. Measure the 
voltage.
- Swap the wires on one of the baluns. Measure the voltage.

One of the voltage measurements will be much higher than the other. The 
higher voltage will be when the two baluns are in phase with each other.

73,
Steve, N2IC


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