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- From: ianchan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ian Hin Yun Chan)
- Subject: Re: Class C amplifiers, says Mr. Pierce.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.090726.11501@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 09:07:26 GMT
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- In article <1goubrINNlf5@uwm.edu> randyd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Randall Elton Ding) writes:
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- >I worked on a class C amp in the military, it was an old tube type sonar
- >transmitter with big 4PR60 tubes for the output stage. The tubes were biased
- >so high that only the top 1/3 of the waveform was amplified. You could
- >get away with this type of biasing since the amp was only designed to
- >amplify a single frequency, 8KHz I think.
- >
- >There is no way you can use a class C amp for audio, period.
- >And why would you want to.
- >
- >Randy.
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- Well, 8kHz is audio, isn't it? ;)
- - Ian
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