[Fists] dummy lamp?

Daniel Metzger [email protected]
Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:54:13 -0400


A 120-V, 100-W lamp has R = 144 ohms at full brightness. Most tunable pi 
networks can match that.  

A cold lamp filament has about 1/10 the resistance of a white-hot one; 
with resistance steadily decreasing as the lamp is run at less than full 
power.  So if you use a 150-W lamp on a 100-W output rig the impedance 
will be quite close to 52 ohms, purely resistive.

Dan, K8JWR