[time-nuts] Tbolt packaging - suggestions ?

[Mike Naruta AA8K]

I don't know if my Thunderbolt installation is
good, but here is my experiment.

The Tbolt is bolted to a 6 mm thick copper plate
10 cm wide and 56 cm long, weighing 3 kg.  It's
a piece of buss-bar that I bought from the local
scrap metal dealer.  Silver-plated too.

The equipment is in my basement, where the ambient
temperature varies only about 5 deg C over the year.
The copper plate is fastened to the side of an
overhead wooden floor joist, out of the airflow.

The Tbolt is powered from the house battery, two
six volt golf cart batteries in series with a
20 AH rate of 215.

A TAPR HPSDR LPU (Linear Power Unit) provides the
+12, +5, and -12 volts for the Tbolt.


Mike - AA8K


Pete Lancashire wrote:
> I've ordered a Tbolt and for now will use the PS
> that comes with it. In the future I will upgrade
> to a DC supply backed by a battery.
> 
> What have u' other Tbolt owners done for packaging
> specially with all the discussion about maintaining
> a constant temp ?
> 
> For now, I'm eying my pile of junk/spare parts
> HP chassis and off to use a friends metal break
> to remake a new front and back panel the get out
> the HP coloured paint.
> 
> My next challenge is I have 10+ instruments to drive
> with a yet to obtain distribution amp.
> 
> -pete
> 
>