To: | "R.Measures" <r@somis.org> |
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Subject: | Re: [Amps] How do I determine Class |
From: | Bill Fuqua <wlfuqu00@uky.edu> |
Date: | Thu, 02 Sep 2004 09:43:22 -0400 |
List-post: | <mailto:amps@contesting.com> |
I think it has to do with the close proximity and precise alignment of the
screen grids with the control grids so that screen grids are in the
electron shadow of the control grids. I have not given it much thought. In
any case, any electrons hitting the screen grid will produce secondary
electrons provided they have enough kinetic energy. At the high screen
potentials that transmitting tubes use each electron that hits the screen
grid will produce 2 or maybe more secondary electrons. The question is
where will the secondary electrons go? Will they got back to the screen
grid or will they go to the plate? With suppressor grids the answer is
clear because the electric field will be favor the secondaries going back
to the screen grid. But there must be something in the average tetrode that
forces the secondaries back to the screen grid rather than going to the plate. Here is one possibility. In a non-shadow type tube most of the electron impact will be on the side of the screen grid closest to the control grid. In this case the secondary electrons will be emitted with a low kinetic energy ( low speed) back toward the control grid. In this region the electric field in going to push the secondaries back to the screen grid before they get very far from it. They will only have a few electron volts of kinetic energy and easily drawn back to the screen grid. But in the case of the control grid shadow around the screen grid. I can only think that there are situations that allow the electrons to miss the front surface of the screen grid (nearest the control grid) and then strike it on a surface that is nearer the plate than the control grid thus the secondary electrons would be attracted to the plate causing a negative net current flow to the screen grid. Just some thoughts. At 06:18 PM 9/1/2004 -0700, R.Measures wrote: On Sep 1, 2004, at 2:19 PM, Bill Fuqua wrote: Not many transceivers available in 1956 to most hams. Many of the old designs were for maximum gain so that very low power exciters could drive them. Here you can vary the drive quite a bit by changing the link coupling. The MB-40L has a link coupling. And we are talking about a 1956 tetrode amplifier from the handbook. The screen grids have several bypass caps to ground but no resistor.
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