The 'power dissipation' in a Cass C stage is primarily a function of what
percentage of the cycle the stage is neither in saturation nor cutoff. A
perfectly rectangular output switching waveform of any duty cycle , if it
could be achieved, would result in nearly 100% efficiency.

Joe
W3JDR


"Ben Jackson" wrote in message
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On 2006-07-12, Roy Lewallen wrote:
The Class C transistor amplifiers I design and use most certainly
saturate. I believe that's standard practice for solid state amplifiers.

And as a followup, is the power dissipation in the final controlled
by the duty cycle of the pulses (or number of degrees of conduction
more generally if the input is not a square wave)?

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