[Elecraft] K2/100 - Power investigation

[Vic K2VCO]

Vic K2VCO wrote:
> 
> Be careful if you use this method!  I learned the hard way (destroyed 
> THREE probes) that the voltage rating for scope probes goes down as 
> frequency goes up. There is a little piece of paper that comes with the 
> probes; look at it, compute the voltage across your dummy load at the 
> power levels that you will be testing (100 watts is about 70.7 volts), 
> and make sure that the probe can handle it at the frequency of interest.

I should have said 70.7 v RMS; the peak voltage will be 1.414 x 70.71 = 
100v, which means that the peak-to-peak voltage will be 200v.
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73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco