>
>In a message dated 12/5/01 7:43:42 AM Eastern Standard Time, w8ji@akorn.net
>writes:
>>
>> As tough as it might be to swallow for some people, tubes are the
>> weakest and most unreliable link in ANY gear.
>
>This is hardly a revelation even to a neophyte like me and it isn't tough to
>believe.
>
>> And if you mistune a PA, or run it without a load or if the load faults
just for a
>> millisecond, something will often arc. We may like to blame
>> everything on the parasitic fairy, but there are multiple causes of
>> failures.
>
>To what might you attribute a big bang when tuning (at resonance) an 8877
>linear into a 2500 Watt Bird dummy load ?
>>
>> The parasitic nonsense about damaging switches and tubes has
>> been gone over a thousand times, and those that "believe" are
>> welcome to believe. After ten or fifteen years of what amounts to only
>> one person fueling the fires, there is little reason to point out the
>> same clear and proven technical points over and over again.
>
>I'm not so sure that your points are as clear and proven as you claim,
// During the Grate Parasitics Debate, our "recognized expert" clearly
succeded in proving that "There is no safety in technological hubris" and
that his opponent would not make an under-the-table deal.
cheers, Dave
cheers, Tom
- R. L. Measures, 805.386.3734,AG6K, www.vcnet.com/measures.
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