Two questions,
1. Are you driving it so that you barely get a tiny bit of grid current,
less than 1 mA?
2. What frequency are you operating. The grid coil and capacitor seem very
small.
73
Bill wa4lav
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From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [amps-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Rahul Sathe [vu3raz@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 1:57 PM
To: amps
Subject: [Amps] 4-400 Amp Help
Hello Experts,
I just finished building a QB4-1100 / 4-400 Grid Driven amp. with
following configuration..
1 X QB4-1100
450 V DC Screen
-150 VDC on CGird, switched / keyed to ~ -50V DC for idle current of 80mA
2800 VDC on Anode which drops to 2200 on key.
Input is applied to CG using a 2 turn: 6 turn air core transformer
(1/2 inch dia, 1 inch spacing) with bias feed through 6 turn winding.
The 6 turn winding is resonated with a 30 pf variable cap.
With ~ 5 W input from my TS130 I get ~ 120 mA plate current giving ~
130 W output. if I increase the drive the output does not increase
beyond 130, and the plate current stays ~ 120 to 130 mA. Where am i
going wrong?
The tube can deliver 400mA in case I reduce the bias on grid.... but
not with the drive?
can someone help?
Regards /// VU3RAZ
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