Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 10:38:25 -0600
From: "Doug Renwick" <ve5ra@sasktel.net>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Subject: [Amps] Removing grid shorts
<I have a GU-78B that has developed a grid short. I have determined the grid
<short initiates about 2 minutes after power on and ends after about 5
<minutes.
<I have tried unsuccessfully to 'burn' the short by hooking up a 560?f
<capacitor fed with 300vdc.
<What other methods that can be tried to 'burn' this short?
<Doug
## I assume you mean the control grid....and not the screen grid ?
## If it is the control grid...... Im assuming the control grid is
shorting to the cathode ? Or is the control grid shorted to the screen
grid ?
## 560 uf cap charged up to 300 vdc = 25.2 joules. Thats not a lot of
energy.
## What happens after 5 minutes..and the short vanishes? Is the tube now
useable ??
## watch out, the control grid dissipation is no doubt very little, as
whats indicated on the spec sheet. In your quest to burn the short out,
you could destroy the control grid in the process.
## folks who have had control grid to cathode shorts on a 3-500Z, have typ
a 50% chance of burning the short open... using a 12 vdc car battery,
which will supply a LOT of current. Depending on the ESR of your 560 uf
cap, the ESR will limit the current somewhat. Typ 560 uf @ 450 vdc
lytics have a ESR of .203 ohms..... which is low enough to deliver a lot of
current... albeit for a split second.
Jim VE7RF
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