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Re: [Amps] a BANG in the AMP ?

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Subject: Re: [Amps] a BANG in the AMP ?
From: "Ian White, G3SEK" <G3SEK@ifwtech.co.uk>
Reply-to: "Ian White, G3SEK" <g3sek@ifwtech.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:17:46 +0100
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rlm wrote:
my guess is that the tube took off on its own.

Took off, the moment he first switched on? 3CX800s have a three-minute warmup, so maybe not...

*** agreed. So maybe it needs an exorcist?

No, just a different explanation from the one you wanted.




If you're doing a post-mortem, you have to look at the evidence as it *is*, not as you'd maybe like it to be.

*** I am the dude who autopsies tubes.


And the single hardest thing for any autopsy practitioner is to begin with a completely open mind: to see only what's really there, and not select the facts to fit your own pre-conceptions.

Try a few episodes of the TV series 'Silent Witness'...


-- 73 from Ian G3SEK 'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB) Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book' http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek _______________________________________________ Amps mailing list Amps@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/amps

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