[Lowfer] Loading coil fight

John Andrews [email protected]
Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:13:53 -0500


Bill,

> I would think that the two AC resistances for typical Lowfer loading coils
> would be more like 12 ohms and x 2.5 = 30 ohms. On your 20 ohm ground loss
> system the additional 18 ohms would represent a 50/32 additional loss
> resistance factor or 2db. Well, not exactly a huge loss but just enough to
> eat away at me to the point where I no longer could sleep at night!!!!!
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Dunno. I confess ignorance here. Is a coil Q under 200 the normal situation?
Seems like Bill Bowers was doing a lot better than that.

John A.