[Amps] Henry 2K Classic X

[Tony King - W4ZT]

R.Measures wrote:

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>Bingo.  The arcs I (foolishly at age 23) drew off of the half-wave 
>anode-resonator with a pencil in my 4cx250R 432MHz amplifier were 
>incredibly lengthy and strangely purplish, even though the peak 
>potential was only c. 1500v-pk.   I thought -- Welcome to the wacky 
>world of UHF, Rich.
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I think we've all done foolish things!  Don't you suppose that with your 
pencil you may have started the arc at a much shorter distance and then 
pulled the pencil away maintaining the arc in the ionized path?  Of 
course that's much different than the arc starting at a distance 
impossible for the available voltage to cross initially by itself.

73, Tony W4ZT