I have a palstar tuner and as a tuner think it is great. BUT !!! mine the model
AT1KP has a really crappy balun. The balun fried at 600 watts and is grossly
under sized. To make matters worse the used a 4:1 balun i this model. I
contacted Paul about the fried balun and got a silly reply that the tuner will
only match 200 ohm loads on the balanced lugs. "what" Here is the email
replies from Paul.
t is 200 ohms in balanced mode only as the balun
is a 4:1 current balun
You also said that you were in balanced
mode
The other specs are for the coax mode
Regards Paul
AND
The Z that the balun is looking into must be out of
the range of the
200 ohms that is the output Z of the balun
itself
This is an antenna problem not a balun
issue
R Paul
Again love the tuner Just needs some serious improvement's in the balun area.
Jeff N3JBH
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