[Amps] 8877 Grid Trip timing
Jim Tonne
tonne at comcast.net
Tue Oct 2 11:33:23 EDT 2007
Tom wrote (in part):
> My homebrew amps trip in less than 2mS of excessive grid
> current. They also fault if the reflected power is more than
> 20% of forward power.
Excellent!
And in the high power shortwave transmitter world those
transmitters use crowbars and trip even faster than that.
Those big tubes are pricey and even a millisecond grid fault
can melt it and cost a fortune.
- JimT WB6BLD
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