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- From: medin@catbyte.b30.ingr.com (Dave Medin)
- Subject: Re: BROKEN TUBE AMP
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.162028.20866@b30.ingr.com>
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- References: <kkv1+xl@rpi.edu> <sehari.721897983@class1.iastate.edu> <1992Nov16.195640.8006@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:20:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.195640.8006@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, aduell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Tony Duell) writes:
- |>
- |> 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.
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- Most audio tube amps have the output transformer as a DC load.
- The AC load on the other side of the transformer shouldn't affect the
- tube bias at all (unless, of course, the transformer fails...).
- This doesn't hold for direct-coupled circuits (hard to find in audio
- amps because of the characteristic impedance mismatch between tube
- plates and speakers) or class-C amps which are usually not in audio
- circuits either.
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