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Re: LF: RE: 73kHz tests tonight

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Subject: Re: LF: RE: 73kHz tests tonight
From: "James Moritz" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:44:07 +0000
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Dear Andy, LF group,

What sort of TX is it?

It uses the Decca circuit configuration, together with my existing 60V PSU and modulator. It uses a single PA rather than 3 in parallel, so the circuit is re-designed for about 2.5 times as much current. It has 4 x STW34NB20 MOSFETs. Only real problem so far was getting the gate driver to work - even with both sections of a TC4427 driver IC in parallel, the drive waveform had rather slow edges when feeding the 4 large- geometry FETs in parallel, so I ended up adding a "booster" with a complementary pair of discrete MOSFETs in a circuit adapted from one of IR's application notes. The driver transformer now seems to be the limiting factor, but is OK for the time being.

Efficiency seems to be around 90%, as we have come to expect. The "guard" circuit seems to do it's job. Once I am sure the circuit has a reasonable life expectancy I will post some more details.

Cheers, Jim Moritz
73 de M0BMU


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