[Amps] SS amps watercooling - was PowerGenius XL

[Roger (K8RI)]

Or you refrigerate the water, but in that case the heat from compression 
is air cooled.
There's a good chance submersing in oil would change the values of some 
components.  200 fluid of a very low viscosity would work.

OTOH it takes very little water to adequately cool a legal limit amp, be 
it a SS or tube type.

73, Roger (K8RI)

On 2/14/2017 10:09 PM, Bill Turner wrote:
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> On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 19:40:04 -0600, you wrote:
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>> has anyone ever thought of just immersing the whole amp in mineral or
>> transformer oil?
>>
>> Joe WB9SBD
> REPLY:
>
> it could be done but you still have to get rid of the heat. Keep in
> mind that so-called "water cooled" amps are really cooled by air. The
> water is just a medium to carry the heat from the tube or transistor
> to the heat exchanger.
>
> The exception of course, is if you have a continuous stream of
> incoming cold water which is discharged without recirculating.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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