[Amps] water cooling

mikea mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Fri Dec 18 03:58:57 PST 2009


On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 08:09:53PM -0700, John Lyles wrote:

[snip good stuff on multi-phase cooling]

> I have been using a pair of 4CW250,000B tetrodes all week as a pulsed
> 200 amp power load. No RF, just DC driven with a pulse generator. They
> are loading my plate power supply for testing, before I finish the RF
> amplifier that will be drawing that current next spring. The power
> supply and capacitor bank (250 uF) must function well together before
> i stick a very expensive cavity amplifier on the end of the cable.

[snip lots more very good stuff]

John, you've certainly piqued my curiosity. That looks like a _hefty_
power supply indeed. Is this a dayjob project, or are you making sure
you have lots of headroom on your home HF amp? I'd love to see anything
you can tel us about the project. 

Very 73, de

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