[AMPS] Glitch protection

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>
>Hello Paul and Abbi, I built an 8877 amp and put in a high voltage fuse 
>and a 50
>ohm resistor on the B+ line. The fuse popped a couple of times when the 
>tube was
>first used but settled down after that. Rich will tell you its parasitics 
>but the fact is that's just normal. 

You are guessing.  The only proof that such leakage is not the result of 
gold-sputtering is to perform the Funderberg test for loose gold. 

>The best protection you can put in the amp is 
>a grid
>trip circuit 

Can your protection circuit interrupt a flow of 45a?

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