[time-nuts] Re: hydrogen rich environment and oscillators

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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Lux, Jim writes:

> We've talked a lot on the list about schemes of varying 
> complexity to thermally isolate an oscillator - well, putting it in even 
> a partial vacuum might  be effective, [...]

The thing about vacuum is that you have to make sure you still get
rid of enough heat to not cook your devices.

I know of at least one early cube-sat which did not deploy it's
antenna, because somebody didnt heat-sink the FET which should have
delivered power to melt the launch-restraints.

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