[GreenKeys] final question on ST-6...

[Bill Henry]

Actually, Paul, it's the reverse.  The 25W rheostat is well heat-sinked to 
the cabinet.  When we couldn't get the rheostat we had to changed to a 
Clarostat fixed power resistor and mount it well away from anything because 
of the heat.  Dale makes (made?) a nice line of chassis-mounted power 
resistors and that is what we used on the ST-6000.  But, they are not 
cheap.  My ST-6 - No. 30 - has run for thousands of hours and the paint on 
the rear panel is not at all discolored.

Bill Henry


At 08:51 PM 7/20/2005 -0400, Paul A. Pennington wrote:
>    It seems to me you could set the control in the ST-6 to minimum 
> resistance and mount another one somewhere else in the loop where it 
> could more easily dissipate heat.
>
>    Paul Pennington
>    Augusta, Georgia
>
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