That transformer fluid is basically, plain old 200 fluid. It may, or may
not contain additives. IOW, it's good stuff.
You can probably get it in 5 gallon lots. Get a group buy? OTOH how
many hams are willing to pay $50 a gallon?
73
Roger. (K8RI)
n 11/29/2015 9:53 PM, Martin A Flynn wrote:
The C84025-1 Coaxial Dynamics load (2.5 kW CCS) at our club station
uses Dow-Corning Xiameter PMX-200 silicon fluid.
A gallon was less then $50.00. We would have went with Diala ZX-4
transformer oil, but could not find reliable information if the
residual silicon fluid would safely mix with the Daila.
In either case, the right part is fairly inexpensive - why use a
substitute?
73 Martin Flynn
W2RWJ
On 11/29/2015 9:02 PM, Bryan Swadener via TowerTalk wrote:
No, especially when you're pumping a kilowatt into a 90W-rated Globar
in only a gallon of media that has only the tin bucket itself to
transfer the heat to atmosphere. You need _every bit of advantage_
you can get. As it is, those DLs are rated a kilowatt for only a few
seconds. That's why I stopped using my HN31 with an amplifier, and
built my compact 1500W (100% D/C) load.
Bryan WA7PRC
From: D. Scott MacKenzie
To: Bryan WA7PRC
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 5:42 PM
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Oil For Dummy Load
Mineral oil is a proper substitute - and not "dubious."
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From: Bryan WA7PRC
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 8:27 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Oil For Dummy Load
I found one gallon of actual transformer oil for FREE (unless you
count having to drive 2 miles to get it).Why mess around with dubious
substitutes when it's available for FREE?
Bryan WA7PRC
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