[Amps] Water cooling heat exchanger approaches

[Ian White, G3SEK]

>I am working on the water cooling apparatus for a N6CA 1/4 KW 23 cm 
>amp. In his article, he talks of using a "small transmission oil 
>cooler" for the heat exchanging function. Does anyone that has done 
>this before have any more specific descriptions than this; ie, a cooler 
>from a 19xx Ford whatever or ...... Are there any other sorts of 
>approaches to this heat exchanging function, even homebrew ones?
>
K2UYH uses a ring-of-8-3CX100s amp cooled by a large plastic garbage-can 
full of water. There is no special cooler. The water starts out at room 
temperature, and at the end of a whole moonbounce weekend it's still 
cool enough to be usable.


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73 from Ian G3SEK         'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
                            Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek