[AMPS] Re: monitoring tube state

[George T. Daughters]

chris wrote,

> If you are running more than one tube, how do you know what each tube is
> doing?  Do you just assume everything is okay?  I believe broadcast
> transmitters meter each tube separately.  In a way I meter my 3-500s
> separately -- I look at the color of the plate which is hard to do on a metal-
> ceramic tube. :-)

well, it's just as easy to do... it just tells you something 
different.  if you see ANY glow of color n the anode of a 
metal-ceramic tube, you're pushing it WAY too hard!  8>)

73,

George T. Daughters, K6GT

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