>
>Hello Paul and Abbi, I built an 8877 amp and put in a high voltage fuse
>and a 50
>ohm resistor on the B+ line. The fuse popped a couple of times when the
>tube was
>first used but settled down after that. Rich will tell you its parasitics
>but the fact is that's just normal.
You are guessing. The only proof that such leakage is not the result of
gold-sputtering is to perform the Funderberg test for loose gold.
>The best protection you can put in the amp is
>a grid
>trip circuit
Can your protection circuit interrupt a flow of 45a?
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- Rich..., 805.386.3734, www.vcnet.com/measures.
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