[Amps] QRO questions

[Dave White]

Gives a whole new meaning to the words 'HF amplifier'....

(ouch)

Dave G0OIL

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From: "Ian White GM3SEK" <gm3sek at ifwtech.co.uk>
To: amps at contesting.com
Sent: 07/02/2010 17:31
Subject: Re: [Amps] QRO  questions

Jim Thomson wrote:

>>Typically we'd blow out about one of those every day of two.  The
>>transports that moved through vacuum seals also used Teflon insulation.
>>There was always a bunch of those stacked up waiting to be rebuilt. When
>>we'd have an arc over at the base of a transformer there'd be a lot of
>>black smoke and soot along with a smell similar to Chlorine and most
>>likely part of the gas was Chlorine.

There is no chlorine in Teflon (PTFE, poly-tetrafluoroethylene). When 
Teflon is burned, the gas given off is hydrogen fluoride (HF). It does 
smell a little like chlorine, but it's much more biting in the nose and 
throat... believe me, I've breathed my share of both.

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