Re: RF CT

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Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com> 


This process is detailed in my early book (1986) "Modern Resonance
Transformer Design Parameters".

What size meter did you use?

Dr. Resonance

 >
 > I had a win tonight.
 >
 > I made a current transformer, RF rectifier and meter with an attenuator
pot.
 >
 > I passed the secondary earth through the CT turned the attenuator fully on
 > and powered up the coil.
 >
 > Bingo! Half scale reading exactly, I then turned the attenuator all the
way
 > off and got a full scale reading!!
 >
 > Considering that the number of turns on the CT (7) and pot size (10k) were
 > only very roughly calculated this came as a nice surprise.
 >
 > Now I can do some real tuning and air gap tweaking/redesign with
quantitive
 > result comparisons.
 >
 > Tom L.