At 03:20 PM 4/22/97 -0400, Vincent Fedele wrote:
>You can not open a vacuum relay with voltage present at the contacts, as
>an internal arc will ionize metal off of the contacts in the process of
>opening same. The result is a conductive ionized cloud inside the relay,
>which shorts all theree contacts to the case/ground. Bad news.
And another thing, as long as I'm at it, how come when we did this that
everything up to the tube blew up? I could understand the relay smoking,
but why did everything AFTER the relay go? That means that the amplifier
(tube) was drawing the current to cause everything to explode. That doesn't
jive with the shorted relay problem.
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