Thank you David. Its very similar in design to a magnetron in your microwave. Just bigger and instead of putting out 600 watts they put out around 100,000 watts.
Chris DeLong Fine Tuning 206.427.4777 www.finetuningperformance.com Seattle, WA USA
>From: David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US> >Reply-To: David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: Re: for the record water is not corrosive >Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 00:19:25 -0400 > >On Sat, 1 May 2004, Andrew Grebneff wrote: > > > Depends on what the tubes are made from. Silica glasses are soluble > > in "ordinary" (impure) water; I'm not sure about pure water in this > > case. > >High power tubes aren't usually glass. Usually they're metal-cased. > >In the transmitters he's talking about, it's common for the water to flow >in direct contact with the anode connection, since the anode (aka. plate) >is the part of the tube that dissipates the most heat. Since the anode is >at several thousand volts, the water has to be pretty pure indeed to keep >the leakage current down. > > >David Brodbeck, N8SRE >'86 Volvo 240DL wagon >'82 VW Vanagon Westfalia Diesel _________________________________________________________________ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfeeŽ Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 |
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