[Amps] 20kw Dummy load?

[Michael Tope]

Has anyone tried submerging MFJ Cantenna's into a water
tank. I was thinking of building up some power dividers and
running 4 of those cans in parallel to make a cheap high power
load. One can will take 1.5KW, but the duty cycle is pretty low
(something like 1 minute on, 10 minutes off). Seems like
conduction cooling between the can body and a water bath
would be of some benefit.

Thanks,

Mike, W4EF................................


----- Original Message -----
From: "DF3KV" <df3kv at aol.com>
To: "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kirkby at onetel.net>; <list at redpoint.org.uk>
Cc: <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] 20kw Dummy load?


> > Well from initially wanting to borrow a large load for a few days
> over a
> > month ago, you have now got a water chilller, but sitll no load. I
> may
> > well be wrong, but suspect that you could make a suitable load from
> > lengths of suitable coax.
>
> I was using  length of RG141A/U connected to a smaller Bird dummyload,
> sunk
> both into a bathtub, works pretty well.
> Connectors are crimped N, did that with up to 6KW on a 70cm amp, RG141
> was fed by 7/8" hardline. For HF only longer runs of RG141 are needed
>
> 73
> Peter
>
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