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Re: LF: Decca Protection circuit

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Subject: Re: LF: Decca Protection circuit
From: Warren Ziegler <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:00:26 -0400
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Yes by all means would love to see a write up, it's the best feature of the Decca!
I have never blown a FET in  a Decca , despite running it into everything from a short to an open and many wild reactive impedances! Can't say the same thing for other protection circuit So!
73 Warren


On Monday, October 19, 2015, Andy Talbot <[email protected]> wrote:
The overload protection circuit used on the Decca transmitter is a rather clever technique involving an over-winding on the output tank, whose output is rectified and fed back into the power supply.   The turns (and mutual coupling) has to be set up at test.

It is arranged so that above a threshold RF current though the tank coil (which is proportional via its Q to the resonant voltage across the coil) the rectified voltage from the link winding exceeds the supply volts and feeds energy from the tank back into the supply rails.  This loss of energy therefore appears as a series resistance in the tank and serves to limit the current to safe value.   By monitoring the DC current fed back the degree of overload can be seen and being DC, is easy to flag alarms and things

It is a bit fiddly to set up at test - ideally if the link coil were 100% coupled to the tank coil , the turns ratio would be exactly equal to the loaded Q of the tank circuit, but coupling isn't perfect so the turns ratio is a bit lower than the working Q.

Apart from using this system on my 700 Watt  137kHz transmitter,    http://www.g4jnt.com/137tx.pdf  where it works exceedingly well indeed, is anybody else using the technique?  And would it benefit from further publication and a write up somewhere?

Andy  G4JNT


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73 Warren K2ORS
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