[AMPS] a sticky issue.

[measures]

>
>> 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!  

On AMPS, there are those who know what's what, and there are those who 
pretend they know.  

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