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Re: Total insanity....500KW 11m amp being built.


 

This is the best entertainment yet on this group!

In a previous post there were a set of specs that indicated "plate modulation" of the final running Class C and an audio requirement of 70KW! No details on that. That in itself is a major undertaking, including where to find a mod transformer! Then how to T-R this whole set up.

I also saw that they intended to use glycol treated water for cooling! THAT will not work. Distilled water with resistance monitoring is required. Been there before on a commercial project that eventually abandoned water cooling. Too many maintenance issues. A bunch of amateurs will NOT figure this out.

Yeah...entertaining....I suspect at some point it all will go away when either it blows up (100%) or they figure out it's hopeless design.

If those CB'ers want a big signal, then I suggest for a fraction of the cost of this amp, an antenna system would be FAR better for those additional db's.

-Chuck K1KW

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Amp Guy Llc
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 2:36 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ham-amplifiers] Total insanity....500KW 11m amp being built.

They don’t calculate , they use the trial and error method.

They think it’s normal to loose a doorknob cap, vacuum variable capacitor, tube etc. Swap part with the next size up and repeat.



On 2025-03-12 10:28, HaL Mandel via groups.io wrote:
When bolting-up the tube sockets for the GU-84b's

I could tell they were some doozies.

Cleaning the silver metal without removing

it from plated instead of solid metal contact

areas required a toothbrush and a pile or two

of Kool-Amp silver plating powder to get the

'low hanging fruit' acceptable.

The big surprise for me were these green glazed

oblong-shaped capacitors with silver metal flat

contacts on each end. They formed a circle around

one of the concentric parts of the sockets.

The grid port, going back through the neutralizing Breuhne bridge

is bypassed, or perhaps better named as "loaded" with a non-inductive

450 ohm, 50 watt 1% resistor that can easily be replaced

or removed as the neutralizing process is analyzed on the bench.

With the cost of all these little specialized pieces taking longer to

agree with myself that the purchase will probably be useful has

gauged my efforts in getting this project 'hot' and making satellite

contacts on 10m.

This is why, looking at the 500MW nuclear reactor experiment

elsewhere, I wonder who performed the calculations for each

and every component, and how did the design choice fare on

a peer review for viability, feasibility and reasonability?

Hal

W4HBM



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