Really depends on the gauge and length of wire you're using. Find your wire data, for instance at http://www.powerstream.com/Wire_Size.htm. You'll be shocked at how much voltage you can drop at 100 watts using a few feet of what you thought was heavy gauge wire. Example: 12 gauge wire is 1.6 milli-ohm per foot. Two conductors -> 3.2 milli ohms per foot. Six feet of wire = 19 milli ohms. 19 milli ohms x 20 amps = 0.4 volts. So yeah, it's easy to lose more then 0.2 volts.
73, Carl WS7L On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 5:37 PM, K8JHR <jricha...@k8jhr.com> wrote: > Er... um... is such a large voltage drop typical? We don't see that > happening on Brand X amps using good power supplies. I understand the > voltage drop when going from, say, 10 to 100 watts should be minimal, like > no more than .2 volts. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
