Ouch, right, I was mostly thinking about QRP. On high power one has to start keeping track of what current each side of a balun was supposed to handle as well. Sorry for missing that.
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Guy Olinger K2AV <[email protected]> wrote: > It depends on what "balun" design you are talking about. Some 50:200 > baluns take a pair of 100 ohm feedlines wound on ferrite toroids to > choke off common mode current, connect them in parallel on the 50 ohm > side, and in series on the 200 ohm side. This design will not do > 50:12.5. Others will not work well because the 50:200 assumes the > lower current on the 200 side at QRO, and a different design 50:12.5 > is specifically wound with QRO high current of 12.5 in mind. -- Alexey Kats (neko) ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
