[AMPS] [Fwd: Inrush Current -:)]

[measures]

>Message-ID: <3907A9DE.28A0@blomand.net>
>Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:45:50 -0500
>From: "Bob & Linda McGraw (K4TAX)" <RMcGraw@blomand.net>
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>Organization: Ben Lomand Internet
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>Subject: Inrush Current -:)
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>As a matter of practice, in the interest of protecting a very expensive
>tube, in my home brew 2 meter 8877 amp, inrush current limiting is
>provided.  A correctly designed, not over rated, filament transformer
>will do the job nicely.  However, if the current rating of the filament
>transformer is too high, certainlly inrush current limiting is strongly
>advised.  (EIMAC makes a point of this.)
>
Eimac makes no such point in the 8877 specs. 

>.....

-  Rich..., 805.386.3734, www.vcnet.com/measures.  
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