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« on: February 19, 2019, 09:30:18 PM »

I was going through some old pictures from 2001, and found this - the first 1kW solid state pulse width modulator I ever built.  Unbelievable that it actually worked, but it did and I used it for quite a while before laying out PC boards.

Amazing !!

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« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2019, 12:36:28 AM »

Wowsers!  I need to build me one of those! 

Hiram would be elated.

Ross Hull would be mortified! 

Makes my mouth water -  Turn up the wick!
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« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2019, 07:18:10 AM »

Never underestimate the magic of clip leads!
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« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2019, 12:53:39 PM »

I wonder what's on that bench today... and what's to come!  Smiley
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« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2019, 01:40:13 PM »

How to terrify a Klingon!
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« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2019, 01:43:26 PM »

It’s called R & D! Love it
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« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2019, 02:36:23 PM »

When you consider what stray inductances and capacitances can do, it amazes me all the more!
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« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2019, 03:29:50 PM »

is the bag of orange drops part of the circuit?
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« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2019, 04:05:44 PM »

is the bag of orange drops part of the circuit?

Para-sympathetic capacitance!  Wink
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« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2019, 07:14:05 PM »

"Don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough"

I think I'll hang that pic up in the shack!
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« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2019, 03:11:41 PM »

my experience has often been that a prototype (as in your example) works perfectly but the following pilot run doesn't

.... Murphy will have his pound of flesh ! ....
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« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2019, 05:44:24 PM »

   Another excellent picture to set as desktop wallpaper to annoy my obsessively neat coworker.  Grin
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« Reply #12 on: February 22, 2019, 01:06:21 PM »

Looks like something I had on the bench 2 weeks ago.  Mine had less components but more clip leads.

Yep:  Murphy was sitting on my shoulder; the clip lead version worked, the soldered together version with the same identical components didn't.
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« Reply #13 on: March 05, 2019, 01:30:51 PM »

Steve
Can I show this in Ham Nation as to how to start a project?   Of course it worked!   I do believe each of us have done similar things before and each of
them amaze us how well they work ! 

Keep that soldering iron close by and hot.   

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« Reply #14 on: March 05, 2019, 02:24:33 PM »

Steve
Can I show this in Ham Nation as to how to start a project?   Of course it worked!   I do believe each of us have done similar things before and each of
them amaze us how well they work ! 

Keep that soldering iron close by and hot.   

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Regards,  Steve
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« Reply #15 on: March 05, 2019, 03:06:19 PM »

Can I show this in Ham Nation as to how to start a project?

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« Reply #16 on: March 05, 2019, 03:24:59 PM »

Thanks Steve

How fun....love home brew projects and especially ones that work really good Who cares about how they look.   Usually not on ATV so all we have to worry about is they the projects sound good....

....and yep - a Pine Board KW.  Now that's funny !
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« Reply #17 on: March 05, 2019, 10:25:28 PM »

Can I show this in Ham Nation as to how to start a project?

"The Pineboard Kilowatt"
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« Reply #18 on: March 07, 2019, 12:11:18 PM »

Show that pic to the XYL and tell her that you are going to do the same.
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« Reply #19 on: March 08, 2019, 11:24:45 PM »

Show that pic to the XYL and tell her that you are going to do the same.

Do this after you have picked out the new transmitter but before purchasing it. As a way of 'running it by the XYL'.
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