[Amps] Cooling a high power ss amp

Richard Solomon dickw1ksz at gmail.com
Wed Sep 11 23:57:55 EDT 2013


There are, today, commercial KW VHF and kits for VHF and UHF KW on 2, 220
and 432
using LDMOS devices. Cooling them does not seem to be a problem.

Maybe the day of using 6 or more devices is past.

73, Dick, W1KSZ


On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Matthew McCloskey <hidesertdrifter at live.com
> wrote:

>
> This is going to be gut buster to all of you I am sure, but has anyone
> thought about;
> funneling down a small Air Conditioner to the blower hole in the amp ?
> Made to come on with the amp to minimize the cold air shock, as the AC will
> take time to start pushing cold air, as the power transistors' begin to
> warm up.
> The air temp would be manually adjusted, as needed, or a feedback circuit
> to
> a servo that adjust the AC temp.
> Ok Carl sock it to me !!!
>
> Matt-AD7XN
>
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