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Re: [Amps] Parasitics & Filament Sag

To: Steve Thompson <g8gsq@eltac.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Amps] Parasitics & Filament Sag
From: R L Measures <r@somis.org>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:46:54 -0700
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On Aug 31, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:

>
>
> R L Measures wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 30, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>>> Any change in current causes a resonant circuit to ring. Ringing
>>>>>> amplitude depends on how fast the current changes and on Q.     
>>>>>> Faster
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> more Q =s more V.  I have heard from more than a few TL-922
>>>>>> owners who
>>>>>> report that a big-bang, flashover, and damage occurred  when
>>>>>> their  922
>>>>>> was un-keyed.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Sure, but how fast does the current change? By the time the   
>>>>> decoupling
>>>>> capacitors have charged to allow the tube to drift into cutoff,  I
>>>>> doubt
>>>>> the rise time alone is going to make the anode ciruit ring at vhf.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> During the Grate Parasitics Debate in 1996, a member of the  
>>>> audience
>>>> hauled his SB-220 to work and loosely coupled the anodes to a HP
>>>> spectrum analyzer.  When the 220 was keyed, he observed damped-wave
>>>> ringing at 112MHz at on And at off.
>>>
>>> I wish I could reproduce that. I've tried repeatedly with spectrum
>>> analyser and 'scopes and only ever find operating frequency ringing,
>>> even with suppressors removed.
>>
>>
>> Apply no driving signal and rapidly key the T/R bias.

> Did that, no result. Hence my post.

¿You found the driving signal, but you applied no driving signal?   
Please describe the coupling method to the S.A.
>
> Steve
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