[AMPS] 8877 Grid Dissipation

[Phil Clements]

At 05:55 PM 8/10/97 -0800, you wrote:

>How much grid current equates to 8.2W of grid dissipation?

 55 ma per tube.
>
>So it doesn't matter how heavy or how light the loading is adjusted as 
>long as the tube is running 4kV at 0.8a--the grid dissipates always 8.2w?

The tube dissipates 8.2 watts only when the amp is properly loaded and the
grid current is 55 ma per tube.

(((73)))
Phil, K5PC

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