Yes you can drive your big radio into a 2 pill and , like I said before, IF you are careful with everything it will live.
But it is risky and it dies on you, no one to blame.
PC, I think you are well versed in how things work and would not expect an experienced operator run that setup into a 2 foot fiberglass no ground plane antenna with some crappy coax and cheap connectors.
But for a casual user that does not have a good working knowledge of RF this might be a recipe for a melt down.
In this case we are talking about a Big Radio driving 2 x 2290 driving 4x2879's
The 4 at the end are sitting in a electric chair.
If anything goes wrong you can kiss the 4 Toshiba's good by, along with what ever else going up.
They are expensive, ya you can still get them but you are going to whip out the platuium card.
I get a bad feeling when I smell 10 Ohm smoke.
It is much better to over build/buy and drive it easy than run things on the edge were a small mistake will ruin things.
Even the 2x6 is better because at least you have a couple more devices to spread out that drive.
( if it is splattering the whole band part of it might be the radio that is driving it has an issue)
Again, this is my opinion after playing radio for lots of years.
A lot of people bag on Hams that run a 2Kw Amp but if you are only running it at 50% output and something squirrelly happens a little further down the coax, it stands a better chance of surviving.
And at that output it runs cooler and should live longer.
Now.
If you have a reason to try to extract every last watt out of each transistor then yes, you can drive the Snot out of them and volt them to insane levels.
It will shock you how much you can force a transistor to output.....for a little while.
How long depends on how well you prepare before you stress the device in use.
And keep a spare bucket of replacements handy.
If you want them to last a long time, over build , give yourself lots of headroom and don't run things on the edge.
2 cents.
73
Jeff
But it is risky and it dies on you, no one to blame.
PC, I think you are well versed in how things work and would not expect an experienced operator run that setup into a 2 foot fiberglass no ground plane antenna with some crappy coax and cheap connectors.
But for a casual user that does not have a good working knowledge of RF this might be a recipe for a melt down.
In this case we are talking about a Big Radio driving 2 x 2290 driving 4x2879's
The 4 at the end are sitting in a electric chair.
If anything goes wrong you can kiss the 4 Toshiba's good by, along with what ever else going up.
They are expensive, ya you can still get them but you are going to whip out the platuium card.
I get a bad feeling when I smell 10 Ohm smoke.
It is much better to over build/buy and drive it easy than run things on the edge were a small mistake will ruin things.
Even the 2x6 is better because at least you have a couple more devices to spread out that drive.
( if it is splattering the whole band part of it might be the radio that is driving it has an issue)
Again, this is my opinion after playing radio for lots of years.
A lot of people bag on Hams that run a 2Kw Amp but if you are only running it at 50% output and something squirrelly happens a little further down the coax, it stands a better chance of surviving.
And at that output it runs cooler and should live longer.
Now.
If you have a reason to try to extract every last watt out of each transistor then yes, you can drive the Snot out of them and volt them to insane levels.
It will shock you how much you can force a transistor to output.....for a little while.
How long depends on how well you prepare before you stress the device in use.
And keep a spare bucket of replacements handy.
If you want them to last a long time, over build , give yourself lots of headroom and don't run things on the edge.
2 cents.
73
Jeff
