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[Amps] Voodoo Magnetic Fields

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Subject: [Amps] Voodoo Magnetic Fields
From: 2 at vc.net (2)
Date: Tue Feb 11 10:11:25 2003

>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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