[Elecraft] my KPA1500 and 160M

[David Gilbert]

If you weren't too stubborn you could find many, many online references 
to the dielectric characteristics of ferrites.  A ferite core absolutely 
IS a dielectric.  There is nothing false about what I've been telling you.

Dave  AB7E



On 9/2/2020 9:02 PM, Adrian wrote:
>
>
>> Now then, whether you want to acknowledge it or not, a ferrite core 
>> IS a lossy dielectric and can get hot when you put a high enough RF 
>> voltage across it INDEPENDENT OF THE CURRENT FLOWING THROUGH THE 
>> WINDING AROUND THE CORE.  You can find innumerable references to the 
>> dielectric losses of ferrite materials if you just bother to do some 
>> internet searching.  This is NOT an insulation breakdown issue ... 
>> not at all.
>>
> A dielectric is defined as an insulator . A ferrite core is not a 
> dielectric (insulator),  This is the false fact in your theory.
>
> *Dielectric heating*, also known as*electronic heating*,*radio 
> frequency heating*, and*high-frequency heating*, is the process in 
> which aradio frequency 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_frequency>(RF) alternating 
> electric field, orradio wave 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_wave>ormicrowave 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave>electromagnetic radiation 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation>heats 
> adielectric <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric>material.
>
> It is the dielectric material being heated via molecular rotation.
>
>
> A ferrite core although not a good conductor also is not a dielectric, 
> and no mention of dielectric loss is attributed to its heating losses ;
>
>
> https://elnamagnetics.com/wp-content/uploads/library/TSC-Ferrite-International/Predicting_Temperature_Rise_of_Ferrite_Cored_Transformers.pdf 
>
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