>2 wrote:
>>>High enough to initiate a plate supply short through the tube?
>>
>>If the anode-grid path shorted, there would be an arc-mark on the grid.
>>I have not seen one in a grid-fil shorted tube -- nor have I found a
>>shorted tube that was gassy. I doubt that Mr. Rauch's disappearing gas
>>theory is possible without direct intervention from the Fairy Godmother.
>>
>Since you persistently refuse to understand how a getter works, or to
>accept that arcs can happen in tubes that appear perfectly good, you're
>unlikely to find much evidence to change your mind.
>
Ian -- Please explain how a gassy, shorted 3-500Z is gettered between its
removal from an amplifier and its being tested for gas with a high-pot a
minute or so later?
- R. L. Measures, a.k.a. Rich..., 805.386.3734, AG6K,
www.vcnet.com/measures.
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