[R-390] Re Tube storage

[mikea]

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 05:48:23PM +0000, odyslim at comcast.net wrote:
>  Orange? I thought they were supposed to glow blue?
> 
> 
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Tim  Shoppa" <tshoppa at wmata.com>
> > > I want to RTV good for nothing tubes on a
> > > small box and light up the fil. with cheap
> > > wall warts!  Yes, you guessed it "Pet Tube".
> > >   I'm sure that we could get loads of money
> > > from this, (especially from the audiophools as
> > > we could convince them that putting one of
> > > these on top of your computer will make the
> > > computer audio sound better)
> > 
> > Problem is, the audiophools don't think that the
> > typical dual-triode tubes are bright enough
> > and they end up putting orange LED's behind
> > them to provide more light.

I See A Great Need. 

Would those folks who have some experience in tube power amp design 
please flange together a design for a class-A audio power amp with 
the idle current set so that it'll light the plates up good and hot,
somewhere in the red-to-yellow region. Do it for some Big, Common,
Easy-to-Get tubes. Maybe 304TLs or some such. 

That way, the audi0ph00ls will jump to this design, because it's 
*Shiny!*, and leave us our useful, hard-to-find, less-shiny tubes. 

Oh, and it'll be good for the power tranny and audio tranny folks, 
too.

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin