>
>Rich said:
>
>>// Sounds real toasty.
>
>Yup. Reckon that would defrost the frozen chicken pretty quickly.
>
>Having seen what happens when some fool stacks timber between two open wire
>(actually 3 inch diameter copper tubes) feeder lines with 500kW at 1.1MHz
>going down them, I have a degree of respect for that sort of power. Yes it
caught
>fire, and yes, the carpenters wanted to charge the replacement cost of the
>timber against our job number. They didn't succeed....
>
>Which leads me to avoid wood where there's any RF on it or field in it. Has
>anyone ever used the old fashioned open wire line (unmatched) where the
>spacers are dowels boiled in paraffin wax? How did it stand up at US power
levels?
>
// They reportedly serve well as cigar ignitors.
cheers, Peter
- R. L. Measures, 805.386.3734,AG6K, www.vcnet.com/measures.
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