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ODPILOT

10-20-2020, 12:14 PM
[attachment=23271]The radio chasisis and surrounding area inside my 53-1750 get VERY warm - this is from a combination of a 10W resistor  and the tubes - has anyone ever installed a cooling fan to keep the components and the general insides of the radio cooler??  I'm thinking it couldn't hurt??  Thnx

morzh

10-20-2020, 01:28 PM
These radios were made to work at these temperatures. I am not sure they really require cooling.
And the wattage dissipated by your resistor: if it is the same resistance that whatever you replaced it with had before, it then dissipated the same exact amount of power, and the temperature would be the same.
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