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Old 22nd Dec 2022, 12:58 am   #57
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Default Re: Quick question on the CODAR AT5, if anyone has one to hand.

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Originally Posted by Cruisin Marine View Post
I'm sure that Codar thought it was a good selling point to make it so compact, but that was always going make the thermal side tricky. It will probably be a challenge to make a clone with same valves and in the same volume that does much better?
The AT5 was a popular choice for mobile operation. From memory, the valve heaters were wired in series-parallel for 12v operation, so one only had to add an inverter, or more likely a war-surplus dynamotor for HT.
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