And when you were able to afford real tubes the 813's took 3KV without
complaint. Many are now running them on AM at that voltage but I wimped
out at 2500 with the 4 holer.
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Kraemer" <elespe@lisco.com>
To: <gzook@yahoo.com>; "'Colin Lamb'" <k7fm@teleport.com>;
<amps@contesting.com>; "Rex Lint" <rex@lint.mv.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] 1625
> We musta been a rebelious crowd Glen
> Look at what WRL used on the plates of the EL34's in a LA-1 linear to
> get
> 400 watts
> PH kind of same way calling (4) 1625's an 800 watt linear. That was no
> small
> hv supply in there either.
> Most guys I knew were way over 2kv on (4) 811's
> Tubes and a lot of other things were cheaper then!
> Paul K0UYA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glen Zook" <gzook@yahoo.com>
> To: "'Colin Lamb'" <k7fm@teleport.com>; <amps@contesting.com>; "Rex
> Lint"
> <rex@lint.mv.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 5:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [Amps] 1625
>
>
>> The "olde tymers" used to tell me of running like 1000 volts on the
>> plate
>> of a 6L6. According to them, you had to send code pretty fast
>> because a
>> short "dash" turned the plate red and a long "dash" melted it!
>>
>> Glen, K9STH
>>
>> Website: http://k9sth.com
>>
>>
>> --- On Thu, 2/12/09, Rex Lint <rex@lint.mv.com> wrote:
>>
>> The max rating for a 6AG7 is 300 V, so you ran them at 3.3 the max
>> voltage! It must be one tough tube. The plate dissapation is 9
>> watts, so
>> 4*9 = 36 watts, and if you pegged the 200 ma meter, the input was 200
>> watts, so you were probably dissapating >66 watts - about twice their
>> rating. I'll bet they WERE red!
>>
>> Water cooled?
>>
>> I ran a heathkit AT-1 that used one for an oscillator, then used a
>> 6L6 for
>> the amp. All told, about 30 watts! If I'd only known....
>>
>> But that was in the '50's
>>
>>
>>
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