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Re: Dummy load



Original poster: "Richard W. by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <potluck-at-xmission-dot-com>

Oh, forgot to mention. Will be used on NSTs and some other HV transformers.

Rick W.

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Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 10:51 AM
Subject: Dummy load


 > Original poster: "Richard W. by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<potluck-at-xmission-dot-com>
 >
 > Hi all,
 >
 > Maybe I'm being a bit out in left field with this one and knowing me it's
a
 > good possibility. Anyway, I have 40 Dale Aluminum 50K 50W resistors. If I
 > use individual heatsinks on each and possibly under oil to insulate each
 > case/heatsink from the others can I build a dummy load? I could make 4
 > strings of 10 then 2 paralleled strings in series would give me 500K total
 > resistance. Taps could be used to allow some degree of variability.
 >
 > Is this possible? Or am I off base with this one?
 >
 > Rick W.
 >
 >
 >