Re: Total insanity....500KW 11m amp being built.
If they grid drive it...... that tube has a whopping 370 pf of input C.
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Jim VE7RF
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#41072
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Re: Total insanity....500KW 11m amp being built.
They don’t calculate , they use the trial and error method.
They think it’s normal to loose a doorknob cap, vacuum variable capacitor, tube etc. Swap part with the next size up and repeat.
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Amp Guy Llc
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#41071
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Re: Total insanity....500KW 11m amp being built.
When bolting-up the tube sockets for the GU-84b's
I could tell they were some doozies.
Cleaning the silver metal without removing
it from plated instead of solid metal contact
areas required a
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HaL Mandel
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Re: Total insanity....500KW 11m amp being built.
It appears they have already? been notified that their proposed? cathode driven config...with both screen and grid bonded to the chassis? is fubar, and the poor control grid will vaporize....with
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Jim VE7RF
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Re: Total insanity....500KW 11m amp being built.
Hey Scott - I watched bits of the video. I saw the plan to power the plate TX with 240V !! Jeez…..!
I, like you, enjoyed Jim’s points of issue.
John VK6JX
P.S my YC156 amp is going great guns on
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John Sparkes
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Re: Total insanity....500KW 11m amp being built.
I think Luke and John will get it working before
SpaceX arrives on Mars, both projects have the
potential to make a big BOOM!
Here's a theoretical design using a 4CX3000A as a driver:
Redesigned
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Mike Peace
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#41067
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Re: Total insanity....500KW 11m amp being built.
One or more of the readers herein have constructed linear amplifiers
capable of more than the two kilowatts input our tickets say is kosher
for the ham bands.
We do so in order to solve a problem
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HaL Mandel
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Re: Total insanity....500KW 11m amp being built.
BBI: "I'm gonna need my goo drop resized to a bunch of 4-ought wires."
Electric Company: "Just how acres is yer grow house gonna be??"
He's gonna need his own cooling lake, too. Is this guy one of
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Steve
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Re: Total insanity....500KW 11m amp being built.
I suspect this project will only end with embarrassment for all parties involved.
I do not watch the videos this person publishes. I watch and read only what I know to be correct, With the intent to
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Amp Guy Llc
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Re: Total insanity....500KW 11m amp being built.
Looked at more of the BBI video.? He has done the fil choke wrong.? His method will saturate the type 43 cores.? ( no bifilar action).? ?The reason 2 x wires are passed through the core, or 2 x
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Jim VE7RF
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Re: Drake L-7 : galvanometer lighting
No one answered my question. Maybe no one had the answer.
I bought on
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Fran?ois
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Re: Total insanity....500KW 11m amp being built.
Maybe one should check the design of WLW back in the day w/500KW AM .. and reportedly they had it up to 800KW just for fun.
Just observ'en.
Andy
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DupyRail
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Re: Total insanity....500KW 11m amp being built.
Freakn Crazy!
Well, if anyone from that specific genre that coild seriously attempt and build such a beast, it would be Luke that could possibly? get away with it.
I wonder who has the.deep pockets
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K6LPM
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Total insanity....500KW 11m amp being built.
I'm betting this will be an epic failure.? I'll put money on it.
BBI, in his infinite wisdom, is documenting the....'worlds biggest 11m amplifier' on his U tube channel. Using the 4CW-100,000E water
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Jim VE7RF
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Re: Original GM3SEK/G3SEK Tetrode Boards
Look on e-Bay.....
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Bill Cotter, N4LG
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Drake L-7 : galvanometer lighting
I'm going to bore you again with my L-7. The 4 lamps that light the two galvanometers are out of order (strange). They are powered by the 5 volts (alternating current) of the filaments of the
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Fran?ois
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Re: Grid bias 3-500Z
Hello
Thanks Alek for resuming the dialogue. You are the only one who has reported this risk of non-degassing to me. Like me, you are faced with a reduced regulatory RF power
You had told
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Fran?ois
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Re: Grid bias 3-500Z
Hi Francois.
I would suggest you leave it as zero bias, without any diodes. As you say, with just 500W PEP output, the tubes will not get hot enough to de-gas.
Your solution of running the amp at
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Alek Petkovic
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#41055
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Re: Grid bias 3-500Z
Hello
Okay, I got it. It's the receive polarization that I didn't understand. Now it's ok.
What quiescent currents should I get to and in what mode (SSB/CW), knowing that I want to output 500
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Fran?ois
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Re: Grid bias 3-500Z
Draw it and take a picture and post that????
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mike repinski
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