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Subject: [Amps] big PS
From: "John Lyles" <jtml@losalamos.com>
Reply-to: jtml@vla.com
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:31:57 -0600
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This is the final power, the driver is 14 kV at 25 amps. I don't have a key for 
it, only a PLC command on a screen to energize it. Cannot send morse with it, 
not fast enough, unless i key a pin diode on the front end. 
There are no off the shelf dummy loads, no. The load is 16 foot long coaxial 
pipe load that was commercial years ago. Instead of sodium nitrite and water, i 
am using a corrosion inhibitor for loss and deionized water. Return loss is -30 
dB over a range of temperatures. It has 
closed loop cooling through a heat exchanger, about 60 gallons a minute flow. 
This transfers heat to the main cooling for the building, which is about 1000 
GPM. I am using around 200 for the load, the IPA and the final plate cooler. 
Its 
not a cheap rig. When I get some photos of the finished operation and have them 
released for public, will post a link for look-see. 

At VHF with a cavity, parasitics are no longer VHF but are likely to be L band 
TE modes. So the suppressor is a different beast, not coil over resistors!

73
john 
K5PRO

> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:52:19 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
> From: Colin Lamb <k7fm@teleport.com>
> Subject: Re: [Amps] PS
>
> 28 kV at 40 Amps DC, or 200 pulsed. 
> 
> John - is this the supply for the driver or are you going to be satisfied 
> with that?  Suppose it is not enough?  Will the neighbors lights dim when you 
> key it?  Are there off the shelf dummy loads available?  
> 
> This gives new meaning to the dispute of whether one-half of one per-cent 
> absorbed in a parasitic suppressor resistor was "no" power, since it would be 
> 5600 watts.  
> 
> 73,  Colin  K7FM 
> 

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