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

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