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tenderland

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I hope my question is not to rudimentary for Iam just starting to learn tube design(after reading throgh many posts I am discouraged by my lack of knowledge)


QUESTION I understand from reading Crowhurst that when the plate swing is not symetrical due to equal changes in grid voltage
there will be second harmonic distortion . The distortion is calculated by determinig how far the mid poing of the swing deviates from the operating point. I can not see how this waveform produces second order distortion, isnt second order a component with 2 times or .5 times the fundemental freq.
Jeff
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Twice the frequency. To find out why you have to understand Fourier transforms and such. The basic idea is that at twice the frequency and the proper phase, the harmonic reinforces (adds to) one peak while degenerating the other. If you have a graphing program (heheh, I wrote my own in QuickBasic) this is easy to see.

Tim
 
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If you draw a sine wave on graph paper, and in the same graph draw a sine with twice the ferquency but say a quarter of the amplitude, you can then add these two curves graphically to get to the combined wave. That one will show massive 2nd harmonics, but it will be very clear how the mechanism works.

Jan Didden
 
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janneman said:
If you draw a sine wave on graph paper, and in the same graph draw a sine with twice the ferquency but say a quarter of the amplitude, you can then add these two curves graphically to get to the combined wave. That one will show massive 2nd harmonics, but it will be very clear how the mechanism works.

Jan Didden
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Hi

Yes, very true

Steve Bench put that on his site

http://members.aol.com/sbench102/thd.html

cheers
 
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