[Amps] monitoring tube seal temps

Jeff Blaine AC0C keepwalking188 at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 5 09:49:30 PDT 2009


The cat's meow on this kind of thing is a thermal image camera.  Just like 
james bond.  You can zoom in on a specific feature and profile the spot 
pretty precisily.

There's a few pics on my qrz page of this type using that gadget.

Wish I had one in my junkbox.  A buddy of mine has one and I was prividliged 
enough to get to use it.  $25K at your local instrumentation shop.  Ouch! 
10 out of 10 on the cool-gadget scale, though.  :)

73/jeff/ac0c


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From: "Bill, W6WRT" <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 10:57 PM
To: <Amps at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] monitoring tube seal temps

> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
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> On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 09:26:01 -0400, "Larry" <n1miw at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> I've been following the RTTY vs. tube seal temp thread with interest. It
>>was mentioned that you can use the crayon to monitor the seals, but those
>>are one-time use. What about a circuit such as the one used in the 
>>hand-held
>>temperature guns (IR, I believe?). Are there available components out 
>>there
>>where we could make our own small-scale circuit to monitor the tube temps?
>>Personally, I've only seen electronic temp sensors which work up to around
>>150 deg C. What do you think?  Larry N1MIW
>
> REPLY:
>
> Excellent idea, if the components are available. I have used a temperature 
> gun
> directly and it works great, if one can access the seals while the amp is
> operating. RF makes it go nuts, so you have to power off and take the
> measurement immediately, but it does the job.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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