[time-nuts] Thermal insulation choice?
shalimr9 at gmail.com
shalimr9 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 7 14:06:14 UTC 2012
You could make a form (a mold) with cardboard and use a can of polyurethane insulation to fill it with your OCXO inside (protected by a plastic bag) like the "foam-in-place" principle. It will be exactly the size you want, pretty stiff, strongly bonded to the cardboard, so it will be easy to mount things on it if needed and with a minimum number of seams.
It may be more work than cutting sheets of styrofoam though.
Didier KO4BB
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From: John Ackermann N8UR
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Subject: [time-nuts] Thermal insulation choice?
Sent: Jan 6, 2012 1:39 PM
I am looking for a readily available (from Home Depot or other local
source) insulating material to use in a chassis that's housing a
sensitive OCXO. My goal is just to slow down any external thermal
transients so the oven loop has time to react gracefully.
I'm thinking of something in sheet form that I could glue to the inside
bottom and side of the metal chassis. The trimmed sheet sizes will each
probably end up being around 4 x 8 inches. I have enough clearance for
a thickness of a half inch or so. I'd like to avoid a bat material as
that would be hard to mount neatly.
Long lifetime (ie, not getting all crumbly after a few years) is
important as I don't expect this oscillator to get cold until I do.
Any suggestions of a material to look for?
Thanks,
John
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