[Milsurplus] Crystal Eater?

Kenneth G. Gordon kgordon2006 at frontier.com
Thu Mar 31 13:27:03 EDT 2016


On 31 Mar 2016 at 9:10, Ian Wilson wrote:

> Hi Ken, 

Hello, Ian.

> The 30k plate resistor and 47k screen grid resistor mean that you
> could never get more than 14mA cathode current with 250V B+.

Well, I "felt" that the cathode current would be low, but didn't take the time to 
calculate that out. Thank you for doing this.
 
> Actually, a more realistic maximum would be about 10mA (with
> something like 100V on the plate and 150V dropped across the two
> load resistors).

Makes sense. Thanks again, Ian.

David? :-)

Ken W7EKB


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