RE: [AMRadio] N3RHT Shack Update

2005-03-08 Thread Merz Donald S
Nice advice. Thanks. 73, Don M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Donald Chester Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 12:40 PM To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Subject: RE: [AMRadio] N3RHT Shack Update >I have the same phenomenon with the 872's

Re: [AMRadio] N3RHT Shack Update

2005-03-07 Thread Geoff
Patrick Jankowiak wrote: 3B28's have a sort of white glow in the gas, right? _ light purple'ish

Re: [AMRadio] N3RHT Shack Update

2005-03-06 Thread Donald Chester
3B28's have a sort of white glow in the gas, right? Usually the is no immediately visible glow at all. If you carefully peer down inside the plate/filament structure, you will see a dim violet glow. You may have to turn off the lights to notice it. Don k4kyv

RE: [AMRadio] N3RHT Shack Update

2005-03-06 Thread Donald Chester
I have the same phenomenon with the 872's or 575's (whichever happen to be installed) in a homebrew rig. 3 light but one is dark, and the phenomenon stays at that socket. No obvious other issues.. how curious. Make sure the tube filament pins are making good contact. I have seen it fail due

Re: [AMRadio] N3RHT Shack Update

2005-03-06 Thread Patrick Jankowiak
3B28's have a sort of white glow in the gas, right?

Re: [AMRadio] N3RHT Shack Update

2005-03-05 Thread Larry Szendrei
Merz Donald S wrote: The 2 supplies run two 3B28 rectifiers each. 3 of them run with no visible indication at all. You can't even see the filament. But one gets a dramatic glow under load. I have not seen this before--is that gas in the tube? > I hope so - 3B28s are supposed to have gas in the