> John F., > > The Palladium valve is also known as a palladium leak or a palladium > purifier. In the Maser the use is as the "leak". It would also serve to > purify the H2 BUT any other impurities lodge in the Palladium plug and > can eventually cause it to fail. Early symptoms manifest as having to > heat the plug to higher and higher temperatures to maintain the H2 flow.
How about reversing the differential pressure to backflush it, every decade or so? > When the hydrogen bottle is changed you must perform a purge routine (see > the manual) to allow any foreign gases to be removed. Of course. > So for maximum life > the Hydrogen should be as pure as possible. > The resonator coil cannot be seen, I can see that it is a bit different > than the manual shows. It was upgraded at some point. I can provide a > picture of another masers coil. The manual showed a helix surrounding the bulb. It ocurred to me that it might be acting as a resonant antenna, rather than just a distributed electrode. > The receiving tank did not heat up all. Since I was going from a higher > pressure tank to a mostly empty tank I don't think compression was > involved The gas pressure in the small tank was increasing, hence it's being compressed in the smaller tank. I know Lecture Bottles get warm while filling to 2000 psi. Best, -John ============= _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.