Keep in mind that most DC regulated supplies are not intended to be
operated in the strong RF fields within an amplifier. RF could drive the DC
supply bonkers. Check the supply in place with AC temporarily on the
filaments to make sure it works OK when the amplifier is putting out full
expected power.
73
Bill wa4lav
At 01:09 PM 11/19/2003 +0000, A.J Moss wrote:
Hello amps group,
I'm in the final throws of getting my 'does all' PSU ready for
my first new amp. It's a VHF stripline parallel pair of triodes from the
GI-7 family, to a design by YU1AW.
Now I'm in a fix over this, and thought I'd cast this one out to
get some opinion. I want to run the heater (I was almost tempted to say
filament then :-) ) at the optimal voltage for the tubes (from what I
gather, it's got to be experimentally found by backing off volts until Po
starts to drop, and going from there).
The original design uses AC for the heaters and connects both the
tubes in parallel with copper strapping for 12.6V AC. The original
design also uses a 10 Ohm, 10W pot to adjust heater voltage in the
primary of the heater transformer. A 10R 10W part like that isn't easily
found here.
If I were to make a floating adjustable regulated DC supply, I could
use an ordinary pot to control the heater volts, meter it, and have a
fine adjustment to within ca. 1V either way to set optimum heater volts.
I could also then add a current limiting option on the regulator to limit
inrush at switch-on
Are there benefits, advantages, or just risks of using such a scheme?
Constant unvarying power at the heaters seems good, but is 'less' 'more'
to use the cliche.
73 and thanks for any input
Adam
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