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Operation is actually rate limited by the anode's ability to store heat, not dissipate it. The electron beam heats up the anode far too fast to reasonably dissi
by adammunich 7y ago
Operation is actually rate limited by the anode's ability to store heat, not dissipate it. The electron beam heats up the anode far too fast to reasonably dissipate the energy continuously.
- vardump 7y agoOk, my knowledge about tube heads is rather superficial. I do know the devices I'm familiar with eventually require increasingly long cooldown periods.
- adammunich 7y agoYes, and in the US, interestingly enough those cool-down charts are actually required to be posted visibly on the machine by law.
- AstralStorm 7y agoWhich is why big medical x-ray machines have active liquid nitrogen cooling or solid co2, and also huge heatsinks.