{"id":1671,"date":"2014-10-08T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/petes-homebrew-double-balanced-mixer-video-part-1\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:56:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:56:39","slug":"petes-homebrew-double-balanced-mixer-video-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/petes-homebrew-double-balanced-mixer-video-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete&#8217;s Homebrew Double Balanced Mixer Video (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kzcvNzpMv3U?list=UU4_ft4-oTdCMlWlL4XXHScg\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe> <b>Another great video from the famed Italian Director Giovanni Manzoni! Bravo Giovanni! <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Pete&#8217;s discussion of double balanced mixers and the associated toroids has made me feel uneasy about my efforts in this area. I wonder if my diodes were completely matched. And I KNOW that my toroids are not as well done as Pete&#8217;s. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>I recently put an SBL-1 into my old, long-evolving 20 meter ceramic resonator DSB rig. Careful with those nice little boxes! A bit too much juice and you can fry the little internal toroids (as I have done!). <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>A while back I found in an RSGB Handbook a nice diagram showing how the diode ring mixer does its thing: <\/b><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ringdiodes100.jpg\" height=\"244\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327370242435631618\" style=\"display: block; height: 244px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\" width=\"400\" \/><br \/> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another great video from the famed Italian Director Giovanni Manzoni! Bravo Giovanni! Pete&#8217;s discussion of double balanced mixers and the associated toroids has made me feel uneasy about my efforts in this area. I wonder if my diodes were completely matched. And I KNOW that my toroids are not as well done as Pete&#8217;s. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/petes-homebrew-double-balanced-mixer-video-part-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pete&#8217;s Homebrew Double Balanced Mixer Video (Part 1)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,34,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-juliano-pete","category-mixer-theory","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1673,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}