[Amps] Voodoo Magnetic Fields

[Ian White, G3SEK]

2 wrote:
>>High enough to initiate a plate supply short through the tube?
>
>If the anode-grid path shorted, there would be an arc-mark on the grid. 
>I have not seen one in a grid-fil shorted tube -- nor have I found a 
>shorted tube that was gassy.  I doubt that Mr. Rauch's disappearing gas 
>theory is possible without direct intervention from the Fairy Godmother.
>
Since you persistently refuse to understand how a getter works, or to 
accept that arcs can happen in tubes that appear perfectly good, you're 
unlikely to find much evidence to change your mind.


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                            Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
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