[AMPS] a sticky issue.

[Tom Rauch]

> measures wrote:
> >With a tetrode, one tunes/loads for a specified screen current when the
> >tank is resonant.  Heavier loading =s less screen current.  In practice,
> >this proceedure is close enough to simply tuning for max. relative output
> > -- as with a g-g triode.  //  Burning up a tetrode's screen from
> >mistuning is unlikely because screen supply power transformers usually
> >have fast-acting fuses in the primary.  
> >
> Can anyone think of a *worse* way to protect the screen of a tetrode?
> 
> 73 from Ian G3SEK          Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
>                           

I sure can't! A fuse is easily protected by the grid, not the other 
way around.

Grid fuses are silly enough, let alone when placed in the supply 
primary!  
73, Tom W8JI
w8ji@contesting.com

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