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From: Richard <2@mail.vcnet.com>
To: Steve Thompson <g8gsq@qsl.net>; AMPS <amps@contesting.com>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Date: 08 March 2002 23:07
Subject: Re: [Amps] TenTec Titan 425
>>? The whatever on the anode is 8kV positive or negative. This is
>>apparently sufficient to attract or repell the negatively charged gold
>>melt-balls - and change current flow. Typically, I see way less leakage
>>current with negative 8KV. With air leakage, the current is the same
>>with either polarity.
>
>
> I should have said ...whatever the metal is on the inside of the anode
>...... If we have -ve charged gold meltballs, why should they exhibit
>different repulsion from the gold of the grid compared with the copper(?)
on
>the inside of the anode?
>
The grid is at 0v. The anode is at +8kV. The meltballs go to the anode.
When the polarity is reversed, the meltballs seemingly head toward the
base because current decreases.
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Attribution failure
When the polarity is reversed, won't the meltballs go towards the +ve grid
and give the same current?
Steve
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