[time-nuts] Building a DC Block Thingy....

[Mike Feher]

Use a cheap Mini Circuits Bias-T. Many on ebay. First load the receiver with
whatever it needs to be happy, then go through a Bias-T and put 5 volts in
on the DC port of the bias-T. The 5 volts could be obtained from the 12
volts from the receiver (as mentioned below), in which case it may not even
be needed to be loaded down - Mike

 
 
Mike B. Feher, N4FS
89 Arnold Blvd.
Howell, NJ, 07731
732-886-5960
 
 
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My first thought here would be to use a small 3 pin 5V regulator to drop the
DC down, and then capacitively couple in and out to let the RF through.

Interesting to see what other comments you get.

Rob K 

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I have a NTS-200 on the way, but one thing about them is their GPS power
output is 12V instead of the usual 5V. I really didn't want to modify the
board any in an irreversible fashion so I was hoping to build an inline
coupler that I could block / sink the 12V current.

I have a Symmetricom SmartSplitter, and I know that *should* do the job as
long as a lower numbered port is supplying power, but I really don't want to
take the accidental risk of sending 12V to my antenna.

Doing the math to sink 25ma of current would require a 480 ohm resistor...
That should make the receiver happy and think all is well. But that's as far
as my knowledge goes. What size capacitor would I need to use? Do I need to
add an inductor in series with the resistor?


Jason


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