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Georgec
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - 2:05 am: | 
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I have a " HB-125 PENETRATER amattur bi-linear ". It wull put out over 125 watts with the swing. I run this on my BASE driven by a Cobra 2000, with a swing kit in it. When I use the Amp I back the Cobra down to around 1 watt and let it swing into the Amp. This works good for me. I just don't care to run quite that much when I turn on the Amp. Is there an adjustment in or under the Amp where I can turn DOWN the out put power to swing to only about 50 watts or so? I don't wamt to mess with the Cobra. I just don't need that much power. I guess I'm just strange that way. Thanks. By the way, it is a mobile Amp.
George |
Kc0gxz
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - 10:20 pm: |
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Georgec
Turning down the amp pretty much defeats it's purpose.
I'm thinking that with the "swing kit", your radio will probably do 20-25 watts all by itself. There is only around a 1/2 S-unit difference between 25 watts and 50 watts on the receiving end.
As far as using less power, just turn your mic gain down some and you'll get less swing from the radio. Turn it up when you feel you need a heavier swing and more power.
Jeff, kc0gxz. |
Georgec
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 - 1:25 am: |
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Thanks Jeff. I did what you suggested and it seems to work more to my likeing. Thanks again, and have a great day!!
George |
Scrapiron63
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 - 10:46 am: |
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Hey Jeff, I've got a little base amp, 'Solid State' 200, that's all the name it has, looks like the little Gray 200s. Anyway, its three speed, Md and Hi works good, but Lo doesn't work, any ideas. scrapiron |
Jp1116
| | Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 7:58 am: |
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You probably have a bad resistor on the switch. Look them over and see if one isn't burnt or loose. I've had three of the 200's that way and some of the older 150 mobiles would show up with the same problem, burnt resistor or one that came loose. Since medium and high work then the problem should be there on the switch. |
Scrapiron63
| | Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 9:42 am: |
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Thanks JP1116, I'll check that out today. Even with low input, the little amp keys a little too much on med for what I need, I want to get the keyup down to 40-50 watts. |
Kwick_73
| | Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 10:15 am: |
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Georgec
Sounds to me like you could make better use of a Modulator rather than an Amplifier.
kwick_73
Golden Eagle BT-073 |
Scrapiron63
| | Posted on Friday, September 26, 2003 - 4:38 pm: |
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Hey JP1116, many thanks my friend, you got the problem right. The resistor was burned pretty bad, hard to read the colors, but I believe it was a 40 ohm. Of course out of the hundreds I have none was right, and my local RS didn't have the right one, so I paralleled a couple of 100 ohm 1 watt'ers, and it's just right. About one and a half watts in gets about 40 out, talks about 150 watts. scrapiron |
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