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Re: [Amps] SS amps watercooling - was PowerGenius XL

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Subject: Re: [Amps] SS amps watercooling - was PowerGenius XL
From: donroden@hiwaay.net
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 07:20:11 -0600
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Much ado about nothing.

( 40 years experience with TV transmitters that use liquid cooling
and voltages between 12 KV to 24 KV. )

Don W4DNR



Quoting Big Don <bigdon39@gmail.com>:

Water-cooled amps HEALTH TIP --
There are enough ways to *electrocute* yourself playing with amps
without having leaked water spraying everywhere....
Don  N7EF

On 2/14/2017 10:14 PM, Roger (K8RI) wrote:

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)





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