[Amps] setting the grid adrift

[Tom W8JI]

>anode or other elemets when heated. According again to 
>Terman, the gas is generally dealt quickly with, in the 
>small arc, and it will work fine afterwards. Were talking 
>about little >arcs similar to (maybe a little larger) what 
>a megger or Hipot may cause if ran way above the specified 
>anode voltage.

Will,

I'm trying to get some idea what your experience is Will, 
since it certainly disarees with what I have seen and other 
people on this reflector with design experience has seen. 
I'm trying to get some idea of why the big diffference if 
you have commercial or manufacturing experience with new 
product.

Do you have any books besides the first edition of Terman? 
His first edition was greatly improved on in later edtions, 
and Terman isn't exactly a good tube-specific reference 
becuase he sort of skims through tubes very and tube 
circuits quickly. What books did you use at work?

What is your experience with amps? Who did you work for? 
What type of amps were they? How often do you use amps on 
the air? What is your callsign? (QRZ shows nothing)? Did 
your company do its own service? Millitary or commercial or 
amateur?

> These hardly make a sound. As Rich says, they make a 
> "Tink" if I remember. That's what I've heard also as 
> there's not enough gas in the tube to carry on like one 
> that's lost its >evacuation. If it's a big loud crack, 
> something else is up. That's my opinion on the subject, 
> and what I've been trying to get across.

You're welcome to an opinion, just like everyone else, but a 
while ago you agreed the grid fuse does no good. What's all 
this "tink" stuff? Do you really think Eimac and everyone 
else is wrong?

73 Tom