What is this?

[Phil_S]

Marked "Part UX-7307, Raytheon Mfg. Co., Waltham, Mass"
Given that it has the 4 letter common state abbreviation, I am guessing it is pre-ZIP code. ZIP started in 1963. I can't remember where I got this, but I think maybe it was plugged into an organ chassis?

DCR readings: 1-2 3.9Ω; 2-7 3.9Ω; 5-6 2.1Ω; 3-4 1.9Ω
Sorry, I don't have an inductance meter.

It fits a standard octal socket.

Thanks for looking!

[M Fowler]

Says its a pulse transformer? http://www.parttarget.com/5950-00-250-7 ... X7307.html


http://www.parttarget.com/Raytheon-Tech ... 36419.html

[martin manning]

One of those "saturable reactor" thingies (for vibrato circuits) in an octal plug-in?

[Phil_S]

Mark,
Thanks for finding that! I want you to know, I've looked more than once with no luck.

Now that I know what it is, what is a pulse transformer? Wiki says,

A pulse transformer is a transformer that is optimised for transmitting rectangular electrical pulses (that is, pulses with fast rise and fall times and a relatively constant amplitude). Small versions called signal types are used in digital logic and telecommunications circuits, often for matching logic drivers to transmission lines. Medium-sized power versions are used in power-control circuits such as camera flash controllers. Larger power versions are used in the electrical power distribution industry to interface low-voltage control circuitry to the high-voltage gates of power semiconductors. Special high voltage pulse transformers are also used to generate high power pulses for radar, particle accelerators, or other high energy pulsed power applications.

To minimise distortion of the pulse shape, a pulse transformer needs to have low values of leakage inductance and distributed capacitance, and a high open-circuit inductance. In power-type pulse transformers, a low coupling capacitance (between the primary and secondary) is important to protect the circuitry on the primary side from high-powered transients created by the load. For the same reason, high insulation resistance and high breakdown voltage are required. A good transient response is necessary to maintain the rectangular pulse shape at the secondary, because a pulse with slow edges would create switching losses in the power semiconductors.

The product of the peak pulse voltage and the duration of the pulse (or more accurately, the voltage-time integral) is often used to characterise pulse transformers. Generally speaking, the larger this product, the larger and more expensive the transformer.

Pulse transformers by definition have a duty cycle of less than 0.5, whatever energy stored in the coil during the pulse must be "dumped" out before the pulse is fired again.

None of that strikes me as something for an audio circuit. Is there something I can use it for?

[martin manning]

http://www.el34world.com/Forum/index.ph ... 6#msg98176

I'm still going with part of the vibrato for an organ. See the link above. The phrase "azimuth pulse data converter" sounds like radar, which would explain the Raytheon connection.

[Phil_S]

Wonderful. It's a keeper for the bone pile. Someday, now that I know what to do with it, I'll build a vibrato circuit. Thanks, Martin.

[M Fowler]

Hey that might come in handy if I could only figure out how properly use one.