[Amps] cathode to ground in tetrode amp

Mike Bondarev mikebond at tochka.ru
Tue Jan 31 09:37:36 EST 2006


Hi, Chuck.

>  WHen I first recieved this socket (3 years ago) I took it apart to measure
> the components, What I found was the ceramic looking plates inside between the
> silver plated fingers.. I will remeasure these tonight but I did not see a resistor
> built in, unless these are what you are referring to?

There are 10 small gray cylinders between cathode pins and ground
(case). It's 10 resistors in parallel with total value of 0,43 ohms.
There are also ceramic bypass capacitors (blue color) between screen pins and
ground.

73's, Mike RL3BM





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