ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:18:37 -0700, "Jim Thomson" <Jim.thom@telus.net>
wrote:
>The 8877 is a ..'throwaway' . Chinese "real"
>tubes 1+2 are a huge bang for the buck, no floozy grids. Now that's
>good engineering.
REPLY:
At the rate it's going I'll probably throw away my 8877 in another 50
years, so I'll be keeping that in mind. I'll be about 120.
It's "floozy" grid is at about 10% of it's max dissipation rating when
running at 1500 watts output, so it's already over-engineered. I'm so
embarrassed. :-)
73, Bill W6WRT
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