[Amps] Tube swap

William Turner dezrat1242 at wildblue.net
Mon Jan 27 22:07:45 EST 2014


In my (limited) experience, it seems that ceramic tubes are better at 
keeping their vacuum than glass tubes. Anyone else had that experience?

Years ago, Tektronix changed over from glass CRTs to ceramic partly for 
that reason.

73, Bill W6WRT
ex-Tekkie

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On 1/27/2014 6:17 PM, Carl wrote:
> The big problem, even with NIB, is the seals leak and the tube slowly 
> goes to air. 



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