I was reworking my two wire beverage and re-examining some of the reasoning for
my construction. Regarding the termination transformer, ON4UN comments in his
latest book Pg 7-88, “As we are dealing with nominal impedances that are higher
than low-z coaxial cable impedances, we shall multiply the last number by 2,
which will mean that n1 will be 8 turns with center tap and n2 will be 6”..
The original computation was for 4 turns n1 with center tap and n2 was 3. Not
being an engineer and I not sure why the doubling of the turns is needed. The
ratio stayed the same since both the primary and secondary got doubled.
A second question, the BN-73-202 cores I use are conductive to a small extent.
I have read it is better to use insulated wire or use sleeves in the cores. I
noticed there was about 2.5K ohm between the core and any of the windings. Not
sure if that really detrimental but I don’t like it. I assume some of the
insulation go scrapped off the enamel on the wire I was using. I am moving to
insulated wire although that limits the number of turns. I guess the question
is how bad does the resistance from different points on the winding to the core
affect things being in the 2.5 K area?
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