In Reply to: Gianluca. Could you calculate a rough estimate of the B+ posted by Bas Horneman on February 13, 2011 at 08:16:04:
Hi Bas:
you were asking;
"I don't understand how you go from the load and power to rms and then to Vpp."
let's say you have a 2 watt amp (45 tube for example) working into a 5000 ohm load (primary impedance).
first multiply watts time impedance
in this case 2 times 5000 equals 10,000
then to get the volts rms take the square root of 10,000
in this case the square root of 10,000 is 100
so your signal volts (at full power) will be 100 vrms.
peak volts is volts rms times 1.41
peak to peak volts is volts rms time 2.82
if you want to know the signal current
take the volts rms and divide by the primary impedance
in the illustrated case it would be 100 divided by 5000
which equals 20 ma rms.
MSL
Builder of MagneQuest & Peerless transformers since 1989
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- RE: Gianluca. Could you calculate a rough estimate of the B+ - mqracing 09:36:50 02/13/11 (4)
- Thanks Mike! nt - Bas Horneman 15:29:48 02/13/11 (3)
- Using the calculations I arrive at a B+ of around 444V - Bas Horneman 12:09:44 02/14/11 (2)
- RE: Using the calculations I arrive at a B+ of around 444V - mqracing 06:07:11 02/15/11 (0)
- RE: Using the calculations I arrive at a B+ of around 444V - Bas Horneman 12:15:55 02/14/11 (0)