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- From: aduell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Tony Duell)
- Subject: Re: BROKEN TUBE AMP
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.195640.8006@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 19:56:40 GMT
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- Its a bad idea to run any tube (valve) amplifier without a load, as the
- resultant reduction in plate (anode) current causes an increase in
- screen-grid current which can damage the vavles - I've seen the screen
- grids of EL84's (6AQ5???????) get red hot on an amplifier without a load
- connected.
- -tony 'PDP11 Hacker' Duell
- ard@siva.bris.ac.uk
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