[AMPS] Rocky Point effects

[measures]

>
>measures wrote:
>>Is gettering very likely while the 
>>>>tube is being removed from the amplifier for high-pot. testing?
>>>>
>>>Yes. If there is a small gas release, the gettering action (which
>>>depends on the gas molecules colliding with the metal surfaces) would
>>>take place on a timescale of seconds. 
>>
>>A big bang is heard.  The main breakers blow.  What souce powers the tube 
>>during the gettering?  It is my opinion that instant gettering is 
>>undiluted codswallop.  
>>
>Nobody mentioned "instant" gettering. I said a timescale of seconds.
>
>The reaction is chemical. No electrical power is required.
>
A maximal load of codswallop.  The reaction requires heat.  

enough
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>


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