On Thu, 28 May 1998, W9JA Paul Hellenberg wrote:
>
> I have been told by more than one person that 8877s are used in some type
> of hospital equitment (CAT or MRI) and that these are changed out from time
> to time based on number of hours used. Does anyone know anymore about this.
> For example what type of hospital equipment, are the tubes still worth
> using after pulled, etc? Please respond to me directly.
>
> Bill, W5VX
> bparry@esconett.net
>
I know that the 8877 was used in GE MRI's in the past. This was about 5
years ago. In fact, I had heard that GE was using matched tubes from
Eimac. Every once in a while, they uncovered a defective tube, bad match
ect. GE used to simply disp[ose of the other tube, often brand new rather
than try to match the odd ones up.
When I looked into it, the problem was getting on the list to be the
official scrap vendor for GE. I never followed it any farther than that.
There must be some hams that work at the GE plant in Wisconsin where they
manufacture the MRI's......anyone know one???
73,
Gary K9GS
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