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Old March 12th 07, 04:21 PM posted to sci.electronics.design,sci.electronics.basics,rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore Cecil Moore is offline
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Default VSWR doesn't matter?

Don Klipstein wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:
Yep, 100% efficiency would be quite a benefit.


There are audio amplifiers with output impedance around .1 ohm, driving
8 ohm speakers, and having efficiency nowhere near 80/81. The theoretical
limit for efficiency of a class B amp driving a resistive load with a
sinewave is 78.54%.


Of course, that was a tongue-in-cheek posting.
But if you could design a Thevenin equivalent
source with a 0.1 ohm source impedance, wouldn't
the efficiency calculate out to be pretty high?
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