[AMPS] Re: Poor science

[philk5pc@tyler.net (Phil Clements)]

> Don't know  other than the plate ampmeter showed no idling current when the
> amp was not keyed.

My inclination is now turning toward a short from anode to ground through the 
grid.
An ammeter in the cathode lead would remain at zero during an event like this.
A tell-tale pile of grid pieces in the bottom of the tube envelope lead me down
this path.  A purely uneducated guess eight years after the fact from 2000 miles
away!

(((73)))
Phil, K5PC




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