[TowerTalk] Oil For Dummy Load

[Bryan Swadener]

No, especially when you're pumping a kilowatt into a 90W-rated Globar in only a gallon of media that has only the tin bucket itself to transfer the heat to atmosphere. You need _every bit of advantage_ you can get.  As it is, those DLs are rated a kilowatt for only a few seconds. That's why I stopped using my HN31 with an amplifier, and built my compact 1500W (100% D/C) load.

Bryan WA7PRC



From: D. Scott MacKenzie
To: Bryan WA7PRC
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 5:42 PM
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Oil For Dummy Load

Mineral oil is a proper substitute - and not "dubious."


-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan WA7PRC

Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 8:27 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Oil For Dummy Load

I found one gallon of actual transformer oil for FREE (unless you count having to drive 2 miles to get it).Why mess around with dubious substitutes when it's available for FREE?
Bryan WA7PRC