[AMPS] RE: Poor Science

[2@vc.net (measures)]

>It may well have been an oscillation but it might have been something 
>else that caused the tube to bias on in saturation.  In any case, one 
>cannot call it a "parasitic" event since the amplifier was not operating 
>in its normal configuration.  

[chortle]  now there's a new one.  
>
>Whether you "mistuned" the system or created a short somewhere by 
>lifting the lid is not really germane to the issue of tubes that "go 
>bump" while cut-off in standby. 

When the N. O. cathode bias relay contacts arc, the amplifier is no 
longer in standby.  

cheers, Joe.  

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