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CHAPTER 14

VACUUM-TUBE OSCIILATORS
14-1. Oscilla.tor-circuit Arrangements .. Since the power required by the input of an amplifier tube is necessarily less than the am lified output, it is ossible to rna e an amplifier su ly its own Iliut. When this is done the result is an oscillator. The typical oscillator is a tuned amplifier so arranged as to provide an excitin between the grid and cathode of the tube that is approximately 80 u f h 8e ith respect to the alternating voltage developed

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FIG. 14-1. Schematic circuits of common t.ypes of power oscillators.. To simplify the circuit diagrams the methods of introducing the plate-supply voltage and of developthe grid bins are not shown, I

bejl.w,en plate and cathode. This phase relation counteracts the phase ..,'.ersal produced by the amplifying operation, and 80 enables the exciting VI),IT,".1YA to have the polarity required to generate the amplifier output. Sche:ms,tic diagrams of commonly used oscillator circu.its are shown in In the Hart.ley and Colpitts circuits the necessary phase relais obtained by connecting the grid and plate electrodes to the oppoends of the tuned or tank circuit; in the tuned-grid and the tunedcircuits the mntual inductance must have the appropriate polarity. the tuned-grid-tuned-plate circuit, oscillations are obtained only when grid tuned circuit LoCo and the plate tuned circu.it LpC. are both usted to offer an ind ueti ve reactance at the frequency to he genera.ted. arrangement can accordingly be redrawn as shown in Fig. 14-lf, and
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