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What is the reason a 2:1 SWR can cause such havoc?
How can I avoid this catastrophic condition? I feed my dipoles with 450 Ohm ladder line, but the last 20 feet or so is 50 Ohm coax, I guess that makes it work ok. I haven't blown up my finals yet. Lions and tigers and bears Oh my... "Steveo" wrote in message news:nceoaqqpc0a3yzz.280620052102@kirk... if you have over a 2:1 standing wave you can do damage to your finals or linear |
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:07:17 -0400, "Fred W4JLE"
wrote: What is the reason a 2:1 SWR can cause such havoc? How can I avoid this catastrophic condition? I feed my dipoles with 450 Ohm ladder line, but the last 20 feet or so is 50 Ohm coax, I guess that makes it work ok. I haven't blown up my finals yet. Lions and tigers and bears Oh my... ***** Actually can happen if you push the finals to where there is insufficeint margin to the maximum heat dissapation. Tubes are a bit more forgiving. Transistor inadequately heatsinked and overdriven, typical CB usage, often have little of no margin for heat dissapation. If the transmitter has a refelction coefficient of zero and the load say .3, then that reflected power from the load is dissapated as heat in the output circuits and any final transistors or tubes. Now if the radio has a reflection coefficient other than zero that will lessen the heat dissapation on the transimiiter. Now you get load and source reflections convoluting within the transmission line. You ought to model a 400 Mhz square wave with source and load refelctions coefficients other than zero. It can get ugly james |
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james wrote:
If the transmitter has a refelction coefficient of zero and the load say .3, then that reflected power from the load is dissapated as heat in the output circuits and any final transistors or tubes. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. If the reflected current arrives out of phase with the forward current, then the final dissipation can actually be *reduced* by the mismatch. -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:42:49 -0500, Cecil Moore
wrote: Sometimes yes, sometimes no. If the reflected current arrives out of phase with the forward current, then the final dissipation can actually be *reduced* by the mismatch. ***** Power is power. Phase is not a problem. Take the mafnitude of the transmitted power and teh magnitude of the reflected power. The results are phaseless. The magnitudes add linearly. QED james |
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james wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:42:49 -0500, Cecil Moore wrote: Sometimes yes, sometimes no. If the reflected current arrives out of phase with the forward current, then the final dissipation can actually be *reduced* by the mismatch. ***** Power is power. Phase is not a problem. Take the mafnitude of the transmitted power and teh magnitude of the reflected power. The results are phaseless. The magnitudes add linearly. QED james Cecil was talking about current, not power. You can't add power the way you can voltage and current. If you could, you could build a very nice perpetual motion machine just by using the reflections in a transmission line to add power so that the output was greater than the input. 73, Tom Donaly, KA6RUH |
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:58:51 GMT, "Tom Donaly"
wrote: james wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:42:49 -0500, Cecil Moore wrote: Sometimes yes, sometimes no. If the reflected current arrives out of phase with the forward current, then the final dissipation can actually be *reduced* by the mismatch. ***** Power is power. Phase is not a problem. Take the mafnitude of the transmitted power and teh magnitude of the reflected power. The results are phaseless. The magnitudes add linearly. QED james Cecil was talking about current, not power. You can't add power the way you can voltage and current. If you could, you could build a very nice perpetual motion machine just by using the reflections in a transmission line to add power so that the output was greater than the input. 73, Tom Donaly, KA6RUH ****** Tom The problem is that current is not reflected back from the load, power is. Thus the you can add magnitudes of power. james |
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Tom Donaly wrote:
Cecil was talking about current, not power. You can't add power the way you can voltage and current. That's absolutely correct. When one adds powers, one must include the interference term which takes care of conservation of energy. The equation is: Ptot = P1 + P2 + SQRT(P1*P2)cos(theta) where theta is the phase angle between V1 (associated with P1) and V2 (associated with P2). The last term is labeled the "interference term" and is absolutely necessary when adding powers. If the interference term is positive, the interference is constructive. If the interference term is negative, the interference is destructive. The best reference on interference and the adding of powers that I have found is Chapter 9 in "Optics", by Hecht. -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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The rig has no way of detecting any alleged "reflected power". It can't
tell the difference between a feedline with a lot of "reflected power", a feedline with no "reflected power", and a plain resistor. It behaves exactly the same in all cases, provided only that the impedance that each provides to it is the same. Anyone not convinced of this should put a couple or more dummy loads in series or parallel, make up a few lengths of transmission line of various impedances, and see for himself. Roy Lewallen, W7EL james wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:42:49 -0500, Cecil Moore wrote: Sometimes yes, sometimes no. If the reflected current arrives out of phase with the forward current, then the final dissipation can actually be *reduced* by the mismatch. ***** Power is power. Phase is not a problem. Take the mafnitude of the transmitted power and teh magnitude of the reflected power. The results are phaseless. The magnitudes add linearly. QED james |
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:29:26 -0700, Roy Lewallen
wrote: The rig has no way of detecting any alleged "reflected power". It can't tell the difference between a feedline with a lot of "reflected power", a feedline with no "reflected power", and a plain resistor. It behaves exactly the same in all cases, provided only that the impedance that each provides to it is the same. ***** Agreed that a rig cannot detect the difference between forward and reflected power. If the reflection coeffiecient of the source is zero then final stage of a transmiter will look purely resistive to any power reflected by the load. Thereby that refelcted power is dissapated as heat. Other reflection coefficients at the source will yield lesser amounts of reflected power from the load as heat. james Anyone not convinced of this should put a couple or more dummy loads in series or parallel, make up a few lengths of transmission line of various impedances, and see for himself. Roy Lewallen, W7EL james wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:42:49 -0500, Cecil Moore wrote: Sometimes yes, sometimes no. If the reflected current arrives out of phase with the forward current, then the final dissipation can actually be *reduced* by the mismatch. ***** Power is power. Phase is not a problem. Take the mafnitude of the transmitted power and teh magnitude of the reflected power. The results are phaseless. The magnitudes add linearly. QED james |
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james wrote:
Power is power. Phase is not a problem. Take the mafnitude of the transmitted power and teh magnitude of the reflected power. The results are phaseless. The magnitudes add linearly. Strangely enough, the results are not phaseless. The equation for reflected power at an impedance discontinuity is: Pref = P3 + P4 - SQRT(P3*P4)cos(theta) Where theta is the phase angle between V3 and V4, the associated reflected interferring voltages. Reference "Optics", by Hecht, Chapter 9 - Interference The last term in the equation above is known as the "interference" term. Unless you take the interference term into account, you don't have a ghost of a chance of ascertaining where the power goes. -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |