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In Reply to: Heat? Yes, heat... posted by serus on September 29, 2004 at 19:01:31:
mullard mz-2-200, the filament alone takes 30 watts to run.But seriously, you could feel the atmas from about six feet away.
Been to ominous-valve.com? he's got a story about wlw (http://www.ominous-valve.com/wlw.html) and its flamethrower rca tube xmitter. 500kw at 700mhz AM. (FCC gave them a waiver during the 30's and wwII.) They used a water fountain outside the building as 'radiator'. The finals were six-foot tall RCA water-cooled triodes in pushspull. Now that's a flamethrower ;o) Interesting article, if you're into mad, teslarian tube gear ;o)
WLW rang in Jan 1 2000 with their first xmitter, a 50kw (what the FCC allows even today) Western-Electric tube rig. Now that's worth kudos. =o) Apparently the RCA 500kw rig still exists, sans pcb-filled trannies.
Thread drift..what a horrible thing.
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- I could always use this.. - thoriated_tiger 19:56:09 09/29/04 (1)
- Absolutely cool, that hot stuff... :-) - serus 21:03:58 09/29/04 (0)
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