Abstract
Most of the technical furnaces used for heating objects of reasonable size to high temperatures under very high vacuum are at present heated by high frequency induction, through the equipment is expensive and often difficult to obtain. An experimental 10kW vacuum furnace with a resistance heating element is described in this Report. It can be assembled from standard vacuum coating equipment to operate directly from the a.c. mains through a transformer. Promising operational results have been obtained and the design is suitable for the construction of larger furnaces on the same principle. The cost is about half that of an induction furnace of similar size and performance.
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