Model 152 PSU dummy loads - Re: NeXT Cube - powers on briefly then off again

[Ian Finder]

This thread took a turn for the absurd. Oil? Water? What a practical bunch of people. /s

They make resistors with adequate cooling... Almost as if they're rated for a certain number of watts of dissipation and you can buy them based on that. They are resistors after all. 

And if they overheat-- oh wait, they're heavy duty resistors, not ICs. Get a couple, put them in a metal project box, put it inline with the cable, and call it a day.

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> On Oct 26, 2015, at 09:24, simon <simski at dds.nl> wrote:
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> please skip this ridicule and grab yourself a couple of headlights from a car.
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>> On 26-10-15 17:16, Dale H. Cook wrote:
>> My recommendation of oil is based upon my decades of experience with broadband dummy loads from 60 watts to 2.5 kilowatts. The dummy loads that I have worked with for medium wave and below and from 5 kilowatts down have all been convection air cooled. Broadband dummy loads that I have used for higher powers (up to 25 kilowatts) have been forced air cooled.
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>> I prefer to stick with what I have experience with. As for water, YMMV.
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>> Dale H. Cook, Radio Contract Engineer, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
>> http://plymouthcolony.net/starcityeng/index.html
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