[Amps] Advice

Bill, W6WRT dezrat1242 at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 4 22:58:30 PST 2009


ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:07:47 +0000 (UTC), Paul Decker <kg7hf at comcast.net> wrote:

>One possible advantage of two tubes over a single tube is the blower and airflow.  Sometimes using two smaller tubes will require less airflow and have less backpressure than a single tube.  

REPLY:

Excellent point. It is a well known law of geometry that multiple small objects
have larger surface area than a single object of the same total volume. It
stands to reason that two smaller tubes will cool better than one large one,
other factors being equal. Thanks.

73, Bill W6WRT


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