>Subject: [AMPS] good, bad, ugly
>Sent: 3/25/1997 6:43 PM
>Received: 3/26/1997 6:21 AM
>From: Dick Byrd, n4uq@mindspring.com
>To: amps@contesting.com
>
>Reading all the comments about which amps are junk and which ones can run
>all night long, etc. inspires me to comment.
>
>I have a sack full of burned up Alpha parts in my Lab-shack. They melt down
>just like any other manufacturers' if they are abused.
...snip...
>The 8877 Alpha single holer has a cooked tube, the spare is even worse.
...snip...
>The little 76 three holer has two shorted tubes.
...snip...
>Bottom line here is, you can burn up anything.
>
I would like to purchase the kaput/shorted tubes from these amplifiers,
Dick. I plan on removing the anodes from them to see what went wrong on
the insides. I intend to publish photographs of the insides on the
Internet so that everyone can have the opportunity to see what happened.
If you are agreeable to selling me the kaput tubes, please telephone me
collect so we can make a deal.
RE: the 80 series Alpha amplifiers: Sure, the warranty is
superb---however, at least a third of the owners that I talked to have
had sudden, unexplained failures during the warranty period. IMO, this
rate of return is a bit too high, Dick.
R. L. Measures, [805]386-3734
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