This is an summary of a 500,000 Watt radio transmitter site. It’s one of the slides shared in a guided video trip of the transmitter’s hardware. The radio station — whose phone call indication was WLW — called itself the Nation’s station since of its capability to reach so much of the country.
It operated at the 500 kW level starting back in the 1930’s. The innovation at the time implied that there were a great deal of difficulties included with transmitting at this level of power. It took 750 kW input to accomplish the 500 kW output. To reach that the station had a set of AC motors in the basement generating the 4500 Amps at 33 Volts DC needed to power the transmitter to warm each filament. certainly there was a great deal of warm produced at the exact same time. The system was water-cooled. An fancy network of Pyrex pipes brought distilled water to as well as from the tubes to manage the warm dissipation.
The video trip lasts about thirty minutes. It’s just packed with fascinating bits from the professionals leading the trip so add it to your view listing for some geeky enjoyment over the weekend.
[Thanks Jesse]