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[AMPS] Single band amp construction query

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Subject: [AMPS] Single band amp construction query
From: kurscj@oampc12.csg.mot.com (Chad Kurszewski WE9V)
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 14:36:32 -0500
At 03:20 PM 4/22/97 -0400, Vincent Fedele wrote:
>You can not open a vacuum relay with voltage present at the contacts, as
>an internal arc will ionize metal off of the contacts in the process of
>opening same.

Wouldn't an arc only be present if current was being drawn?  My line of
thinking was that the tube was in cut-off and no current would flow,
therefore no problem.  Obviously this wasn't the case.  :)

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