Hello all, About 10 years ago, I built two 'boilers' for GS-35b tubes, totally for the heck of it. To date, I have not actually used either one, as building a new amp was not high on my list of thin
How about instead of "Water" use Mineral Oil or Transformer oil? Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 4/13/2018 8:40 PM, Steve Bookout wr
I seem to recall the Eimac handbook "Care and feeding of power grid tubes" having a section on water cooling. The only thing I recall being water cooled were the 100 Kw plus SW transmitters made by
Having spent many years of my life (in another life. I left there in 87 and went to college) working with induction heating from KHz to MHz and air cooled 2 KW to 6KW water cooled into the hundreds o
Not necessarily against it, but because of the viscosity, I'm reasonably sure an aquarium pump would not work. There's a wide selection of aquarium pumps out there to choose from. Keep in mind, tha
While it was a very long time ago, I recall as a kid I got to go on a tour of the old KVOO AM broadcast station in Tulsa. Their tubes were water cooled and I recall the engineer showing us their dist
I concur with Roger, and have always been taught to avoid using Brass fittings in a high resistivity pure water system for amplifiers. Zinc leaches out, but then again, I don't have systems with rout
The system I worked on was installed around 1960 and AFAIK it came out of service around 2000 - 2010. As for the copper oxide, the foot and a half to two foot long anodes of the tubes in the 200+ K
We always ran a small amount of DowTherm in our MSDC klystrons with no resistance issues. ( only 24KV ). Don W4DNR The system I worked on was installed around 1960 and AFAIK it came out of service ar