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Palstar AT5K 3500 watt antenna tuner: the rock crusher
Palstar's most powerful tuner ever!
The typical unbalanced tuner with a 4:1 balun at the OUTPUT exposes the balun to a wide variety of impedance and reactance that it was never designed to handle.
Inside the AT5K you'll find massive custom large plate (600 pF) variable capacitors at 6 kV. Equally massive 10 Amp 7 kV CERAMIC body inductor wound with #10ga plated copper wire with silver-plated wheelshaft, contact wheel, and hardware (35uH).
Also, Palstar engineering has incorporated the technology found in our popular WM150 watt meter into this tuner to provide dual cross-needle metering with active peak and peak hold. See below for more technical specifications.
There aren't any revews on the AT5K yet, but The AT4K was reviewed in the Sept 2004 edition of QST or check out the user reviews on eHam.net.
Click here for reviews on the AT4K.
* 3500 Watts single tone continuous. High efficiency, low tuner losses and wide Z range.
* 160m to 15m with limited Z range on 10m
* Balanced OUTPUT with high power 5 kW TEFLON cable balun at the INPUT of tuner circuit
* Custom large plate (600pf) variable capacitors at 6 kV
* 10 Amp 7 kV CERAMIC body inductor wound with #10ba plated solid copper wire
* Silver plated wheel shaft, contact wheel and hardware
* Dual cross-needle metering with active peak and peak-hold
* Six-position switchable antenna input switch with 7 Amp, 10kV contacts
* Chassis and top cover are .090 ga. aluminium iridite coated and top cover is powder coat finished
* Fan cooling for extended 100% duty cycle operation
* Dimensions: 8" H x 16" W x 18" D
