LinkBack Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
  #1   Report Post  
Old October 30th 04, 09:22 AM
Joel Kolstad
 
Posts: n/a
Default Electronic tuning (high voltage varactors)

I'm looking for suggestions on how one might go about changing the effective
capacitance of a resonant circuit (it's part of a filter) in order to change
the center frequency. The tricky part is that there's ~30dBm (10Vpp) RF
running around, so with standard varactor diodes the RF becomes 'the bias'
and the tuning is destroyed. I'm told that there are 'high voltage'
varactor diodes out there; does anyone have a recommended source?

This is at 500MHz and the nominal component values are ~3pF. If I could
obtain a 2:1 tuning range, I'd be happy. I need perhaps 30 steps within
that range (3-6pF), and (doing the calculations) each step changes the
capacitance by little more than about 100fF to start with -- so I'm thinking
that switching physical capacitors into and out of the circuit is out of the
question here.

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance,
---Joel Kolstad


 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules

Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
FA: MORE MULTIPLE LOTS of Various Electronic Components Jerry Rakar Homebrew 2 June 15th 04 06:50 AM
FA: MORE MULTIPLE LOTS of Various Electronic Components Jerry Rakar Homebrew 0 June 15th 04 04:47 AM
FA: MULTIPLE LOTS of Various Electronic Components Jerry Rakar Homebrew 0 May 28th 04 10:37 PM
FA: MULTIPLE LOTS of Various Electronic Components Jerry Rakar Homebrew 0 May 28th 04 10:37 PM
A Subtle Detail of Reflection Coefficients (but important to know) Dr. Slick Antenna 199 September 12th 03 10:06 PM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 09:47 AM.

Powered by vBulletin® Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2024 RadioBanter.
The comments are property of their posters.
 

About Us

"It's about Radio"

 

Copyright © 2017