[AMPS] Parasitic suppressors/another question,

[Rich Measures]

>
>Hello All, 
>
>I currently have a home brew amp which I need to finish which I can make
>oscillate at the drop of a pin.
>
€  excellent

>Would it be of interest to anyone for me to put new resistors in the anode
>suppressors and check values before and after the 'event'?
>
€  Does it have a history of damaging suppressor resistors, Steve?   
>
>At 03:26 PM 4/9/99 , Jon Ogden wrote:
>>
>>>€  So it is the loss of contact tension that indirectly causes the 
>>>resistance of the suppressor resistors to substantially increase without 
>>>showing an outward sign of resistor overheating?
>>
>>How long will you hold to the view that the resistors where of proper 
>>resistance value before the oscillation took place when you have no proof?  
>>You are making an assumption that the resistors were within spec before the 
>>arcing.  We have no way of knowing that unless you measured them just before 
>>the arc.
>>
>>Go back and read the post I left a month or so ago on why suppressor 
>>resistors fail.
>>
>>It's a bad idea to make an assumption based on incomplete evidence.  Try it 
>>in a court of law and you'll be laughed at.
>>
>>73,
>>
>>Jon
>>KE9NA
>>
>>
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