On Thursday 16 November 2006 18:23, Jack Schmidling wrote: > KEY5MIR wrote: > > Connecting your audio generator to the mic input and tracing the sine > > wave through your audio stages with an Oscilloscope can be fun and > > educational if you like that kind of stuff. That might help you zero in > > on the problem. > > Other than watching it get bigger and assuming that it remains > sinusoidal, what would I look for indicated by my problem? > > js
That's pretty much it, along with what John says here... -KA5MIR On Thursday 16 November 2006 19:07, John E. Coleman (ARS WA5BXO) wrote: > Transformer saturation has a very distinctive look when low > frequency sine waves are passed through. One peak or the other of the > sine wave will flatten but the flattened part will have a slope. When a > pre-amplifier stage is over driven the wave flattens but does not > generally have a slope on the flattened part of the wave. When a > transformer has reached magnetic saturation there is a flattening as well > but is will have a distinctive slope some have labeled it the trapezoidal > look not to be confused with the pattern we use for modulation indicator. ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected]
