From: "Merv Schweigert" <k9fd@htc.net>
To: <amps@contesting.com>, "Ian White, G3SEK"
<G3SEK@ifwtech.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [AMPS] TL-922 Filament Transformer Protection
Date sent: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 18:01:50 -0500
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>
>
> >>>lots of parasitics. But never once did I see a parasitic cause damage.
>
>
> Boy now thats a parasitic I wouldnt mind having, all the
> parasitics that I have seen , most of them around the
> 4-1000 amplifiers, cause damage to say the least. When
> the amp takes off uncontrollably and meters bend around
> the pegs, resistors blow, safety trips explode, that what
> I call damage.
Sounds like you have confused outgassing or gas ingress, a fairly
common occurrence, with a parasitic.
High vacuum arcs are common in tubes, especially old used glass
tubes.
I guess if we don't know what a problem is, it's easy to call it a
"parasitic".
73, Tom W8JI
w8ji@contesting.com
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