Thursday, September 1, 2016

SSPA Power Supply - CORCOM P/N 200DFC6-P 200AMP 1000nF FEEDTHROUGH CAPACITOR CLASS Y4

New Corcom 200DFC6-P arrived and installed.  I got this on Ebay for $75.  Not cheap, but they are $165 new if you can find them, so pretty decent savings there.  Here's the datasheet on this device.  Insertion loss is somewhere between 50-90 db at 50 MHz.  Probably very close to -70db down.

Because I'm using switch mode power supplies in this system I'm trying to filter any noise entering and leaving this jumbo power supply.

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In the rear of the case (top almost center) you can see the new 200 Amp 130v "Feedthrough Capacitor".  That's 2 AWG feeding it from the 400 amp (2x over rated on purpose) Ammeter Shunt.  4 AWG everywhere else on the DC stuff inside this case.

I don't really know for certain if this will be enough to keep the power coming out of this system clean, but I suspect it will be pretty good.  We'll know later this fall when the RF amp that uses this power supply is on the air producing RF, and putting a load on this power supply.  Until I can get a load on it, I can't really tell for sure how clean it'll be.

At least on Receive I should be very good.  Since the RF amp and the power supply are at minimal load at that point.







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