Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!evax!utacfd!letni!rwsys!kf5iw!k5qwb!lrk From: lrk@k5qwb.UUCP (Lyn R. Kennedy) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Impedence matching... Message-ID: Date: 30 Mar 91 07:01:41 GMT References: <2532@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> Organization: Radio Amateur k5qwb Lines: 22 robf@mcs213k.cs.umr.edu (Rob Fugina) writes: > I'm confused as to the importance of impedance matching... Since I may > not know the whole scope of this subject, I'll say I'm referring to things > like stereo line-level, headphone, microphone, antenna inputs and outputs. > I can see that if you have a high impedance source, you need to have a high > impedence load or input so as not to load down the source. So what is the > need, when you have a low impedence source, to have a low impedence load? > > Me If you don't need to get all the power from the source into the load there is no problem. --------- lrk@k5qwb.UUCP lrk%k5qwb@kf5iw.UUCP 73, utacfd.utarl.edu!letni!rwsys!kf5iw!k5qwb!lrk Lyn Kennedy K5QWB @ N5LDD.#NTX.TX.US P.O. Box 5133, Ovilla, TX, USA 75154 -------- "We have met the enemy and they are us." Pogo -----------------