[Amps] more - oil bath GS-35b

Bill Turner dezrat at outlook.com
Wed Apr 1 15:07:42 EDT 2015


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On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 11:22:14 -0600, W8ZR wrote:

>I haven't thought about this deeply, but I'm thinking the rate of heat
>transfer to the oil bath depends only on the temperature difference
>between the oil (adjacent to the tube anode) and the anode
>temperature, as well as the thermal impedance of the tube-oil
>interface. Speeding up the oil flow ensures that cool oil is always
>present at the interface, thus maximizing the temperature difference
>and optimizing heat transfer.

REPLY:

You said it better than I did. Sounds right to me. 

73, Bill W6WRT


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