[AMRadio] Re: VK1 813 rig

[Geoff/W5OMR]

DOXEMF at aol.com wrote:
> Jim Candela writes:
>>  used an outboard power supply for the 8417's producing about 550 volts and 300v (regulated). I could get about 150 watts output pretty easy with that rig and still have good AM performance. I had a 125w Stancor polypedance mod transformer. This was a 160-40 rig only.<
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> I see, you didn't get 100% mod with that low of a supply.
>   

he got -more- than 100% modulation out of that rig.  The 8417's were the 
modulators, modulating a single 813.  Worked like a hose, from what I 
remember.  He might have had (4) 8417's

> Been thinking of squeezing a pair of 4D32s ala Bretts final
> sort of so as to keep the voltage lower but current up. The stock VK supply has at least 500 ma available without the onboard modulators.
>   

Pair of 4D32's?  That'd be around 200 ~ 250w, right?  Pair of 811's.  
They're just great tubes, for class B stuff.


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