[ARC5] Quick sensistivity comparison
Kenneth G. Gordon
kgordon2006 at frontier.com
Thu Jun 13 13:01:39 EDT 2013
On 13 Jun 2013 at 4:45, J. Forster wrote:
> Ken,
>
> It might be worth checking for gas in the tubes.
In which? Do you mean the 12SK7s? Or in all?
> I'd suggest running them for several days at nominal filament, nominal
> plate, and biased to conduct about 10-20% of rated plate current to
> allow the getter to clean up anything that has diffused into the tubes
> in the last 70-odd years.
OK. I can do that easily enough.
> After that, try the NF test again.
OK. Will do, John. Thanks very much for the suggestions.
> YMMV,
Yes! Won't it just! :-)
Ken W7EKB
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