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Have you ever seen a push-pull pair consuming more than the maximum 20 amp rating of a single device? That's not even a possibility with each transistor only conducting half of the time. While one transistor works, the other is asleep.

Look back at the threat titled "Hundreds of watts from a 2SC2879" and you'll see where that is the case using a very similar transistor. After much skepticism, W8JI finally confirmed what many of us already knew. One of those transistors in a single ended, resonant circuit quite easily makes over 200 watts without ever exceeding its maximum collector current or dissipation.

Is this the maximum sustained output you could get from one in a single ended circuit with a resonant input and output circuit, or half of what you've seen from a push-pull pair?

[QUOTE="Shockwave, post: 676291, member: 10882"] Have you ever seen a push-pull pair consuming more than the maximum 20 amp rating of a single device? That's not even a possibility with each transistor only conducting half of the time. While one transistor works, the other is asleep. Look back at the threat titled "Hundreds of watts from a 2SC2879" and you'll see where that is the case using a very similar transistor. After much skepticism, W8JI finally confirmed what many of us already knew. One of those transistors in a single ended, resonant circuit quite easily makes over 200 watts without ever exceeding its maximum collector current or dissipation. Is this the maximum sustained output you could get from one in a single ended circuit with a resonant input and output circuit, or half of what you've seen from a push-pull pair? [/QUOTE]

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