On 10/26/2015 10:52 AM, Toby Thain wrote:
Damn, I already ordered a pile of HVAC gear. j/k - yeah that was what I was basically planning, Ian ... just as a noob, I'm not totally confident with what a single air cooled part can dissipate.
The talk about dummy loads brought back a memory of the Heath Cantenna--an RF dummy load consisting of a Globar (noninductive) resistor in a gallon paint can filled with mineral oil with an attachment to a SO-239 "UHF" connector on top. IIRC, it was literally capable of dissipating a full "gallon".
Kanthal Globar is still very much in business and does offer the resistors, if anyone wants to build such a unit for old times' sake.
--Chuck
