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It started when the dummyload was too small for a job. It's for 40 mtrs.
But making it is barely possible. It should have a Zo of 50 ohms ? And what about the Q factor ? Looking on my swr meter it gets better when i put my hands near it and at a very small C rate but still in the red. Anyone ? An LC circuit won't make a good dummy load. A "pure" LC circuit is lossless... both the L and the C are pure reactances, and neither will (or can) dissipate any power. In practice, you could make an LC series circuit which would be 50 ohms resistive at a single frequency... you'd use a really lousy inductor (one wound with many turns of small wire) which has a pretty significant DC resistance. The series C would be just enough to tune out (resonate) the inductance at the frequency you're going to be using it with. The inductor's ESR at this frequency is going to be higher than its DC resistance, due to skin effect and other loss phenomena. The resulting circuit would *not* be 50 ohms resistive at other frequencies. It'll have a capacitive reactance at lower frequencies and an inductive reactance at higher frequencies. Seems like an expensive and annoying way to make a dummy load. Unless you've got other requirements you haven't mentioned, I'd suggest just making a halfway-decent dummy load from a bunch of noninductive resistors (e.g. in series-parallel) mounted on some sort of heatsink. -- Dave Platt AE6EO Friends of Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads! |
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