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Old January 19th 09, 11:43 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
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Default 48V automotive systems -- WAS: [UHF (70cm) PA]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:05:25 +0200, Paul Keinanen wrote:
On 19 Jan 2009 17:49:47 GMT, Allodoxaphobia wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:17:52 -0800, geek wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:00:45 +0000, Bob wrote:

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If I was designing a UHF PA, I'd choose FETs these days!

Alas, if automobiles used 48V instead of 12 ;-)


They will.


A few years ago 42 V (3x14 V) was supposed to be the new automobile
voltage, but I have not heard much of it lately :-).


I read about the engineering and design that was going into the "new
48V automotive systems" in the IEEE Spectrum in the last year or so.

A brief Google search of ieee.org did not locate the article for me.

Jonesy