[AMPS] Blown TL922A... What to do?

Tom Rauch W8JI@contesting.com
Mon, 11 Sep 2000 08:58:24 -0400


> Hi Tom and all on the amp reflector, I was wondering if the tests you did
> with the 8877 tube checking for grid to cathode shorts was done with a
> hard start or soft start filament supply, and did you notice any
> differences if you tested them with a soft start cct.?

The filament supply (sorry Rich for violating your important 
correction, but it is a filament as well as a heater)  was current 
limited to two times the operating current.

It would not be a valid test, otherwise.


73, Tom W8JI
w8ji@contesting.com

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