I observed the signal from my vacuum tube model and calculated the output. The waveform was no higher in Peak to Peak value than a standard TMCC base. As a matter of fact I did experiment with boosting the signal higher than the normal TMCC output and found that had little if any effect. The real advantage to my circuit was the custom wound output coil that was tuned to 455 Khz.
If you take an oscilloscope and look at the electrical signal on a large layout you will find a massive amount of electrical noise. So bad as to the point of obliterating the TMCC base signal. It just makes if to hard for the receivers to filter out the signal they need. The output coil in effect shorts the outside rails to ground and gets rid of the noise. The primary of the coil is in the plate circuit of the 6AQ5 and actually steps down the output since the primary has more windings than the secondary. In short it does more to clean up the signal by shunting the electrical noise ( all those rails are a huge antenna for any RF in the area ) and then only apply a clean TMCC signal.
A simple observation of the TMCC output signal from the standard base with nothing connected and the output of signal of my device are virtually the same. The advantage of my unit is that it couples to the track much better than a TMCC base output and shunts all other signals and noise to ground, reducing their intensity so the actual TMCC signal can now be clearly seen on the oscilloscope.
I did promote it as a linear amplifier at one point but I found that a signal with more amplitude was not any real benefit. The real trick is to get the TMCC signal injected onto the rails with a device that has really low impedance. The standard TMCC base does not do that.
I got sideways with someone on the forum over it and the subject was blocked. Dale did a good job of converting it to solid state and I have never seen his diagram or what was done to help with impedance matching of the output.
There was nothing illegal about the power output level of my device.
