My 2 x GU84B's feel more happy together. So does the owner of the amp :-)
Cheers, Dick
PA3DUV
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony King - W4ZT" <amps080605@w4zt.com>
To: "Amps Reflector" <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] One GS-35B or two?
>
>
> Roy Koeppe wrote:
>> Tony said...
>>
>> "There is no use wasting another tube and increasing the demand for
>> filament current, plate current AND lowering your plate load impedance
>> by using two tubes."
>>
>> Tony, huh?,
>>
>> You would not increase your plate current or lower your plate load
>> impedance if you ran the same legal power limit with either one or a
>> pair of those tubes. (Besides, lowering plate Z is not necessarily a bad
>> thing? Your tank circuit runs more efficiently with a lower ratio of
>> in/out transformation).
>>
>> 73, Roy K6XK
>
> Thanks Roy... if it were only true... I haven't seen anyone yet that
> could run a pair without pushing them and that means all the above.
>
> You are absolutely right if it were kept to legal power! It wouldn't be
> better though. It would just be more hardware and filament power for no
> gain at all. Plus higher output C which would make ten meters more
> difficult. I still say, keep tubes to themselves. They don't have
> feelings and wont mind spending their life alone ;)
>
> Thanks and 73, Tony W4ZT
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