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- From: tom@cpac.washington.edu (Tom May)
- Newsgroups: alt.guitar
- Subject: Re: BOOKS NEEDED: tube primer
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 04:26:08 GMT
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- In-reply-to: jhalvers@plains's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:04:34 GMT
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- In article <C17zrn.F56@ns1.nodak.edu> jhalvers@plains (Jon Halverson) writes:
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- Me too, any suggestions out there? I'm already planning to get the Tube
- Amp III book.
-
- The Tube Amp Book Volume 3 is mostly good for schematics. It also has
- a decent section about Marshall power tubes and a few amp mods. But
- if you really want to know how tubes work and how to understand or
- build circuits with them, you will need an electronics textbook (you
- probably already know this). I've gone into the engineering library
- at the university here and looked up variations on "Vacuum Tubes" and
- "Electron Tubes" and "Amplifiers". The books that cover tubes best
- seem to be from the 50s and 60s. I've been searching used bookstores
- for similar books without much luck, although I found a way cool RCA
- Receiving Tube Manual which has much tube info. The circuits end up
- looking a lot like transistor circuits (wow! cathode follower!). Once
- you understand the theory, the schematics in the Tube Amp Book give
- good practical designs to study (something textbooks often seem to be
- weak on).
-
- I would dearly love to find the RCA Radiotron Handbook (which someone
- else mentioned); I have seen it referred to as a bible for tube
- applications. My engineering library doesn't have it . . .
- --
- Tom, proto tube hacker
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