[Amps] B- questions

[donroden at hiwaay.net]

Klystrons have cathode voltages of -12KV @ 10 amps or more.

The same rules of safety apply to any potentials above OR below ground,

Don WA4NPL



Quoting "Rob Atkinson" <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>:

> Bill thanks for your answer.  I appreciate the lack of gobbldygook
> But I fail to understand why all this metering of B- is somehow safe,
> but doing the same thing with B+ is not.  If B- is around minus 3000
> v. it seems to me that having only a dinky resistor and/or a diode and
> meter between that and the chassis is dangerous.  There must be
> something counterintuitive about this I am missing.
>
> 73
>
> Rob
> K5UJ
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