16 Minutes is normal. First FTS tubes do not leak as much as the old HP tubes. Second the seller most likely did run a test which means the tube was pumped down. Unless there is software that tells beam current the only way I know to get some idea of health of tube is as I mentioned before measure the beam current. I have probably done it at least a hundred times, made a connector adapter. Bert Kehren In a message dated 12/8/2014 10:15:08 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, b...@evoria.net writes:
Well, it's alive, and I even have 10MHz coming from it. It took about 16 minutes to go to lock. Is that good, or doesn't matter? Now I've got to put together a serial cable and see if I can talk to it and find out how it thinks it's doing. But, this is good! www.evoria.net/AE6RV/PRS-45A/2014-12-08%2020.51.33.jpg Hope you enjoy the wall decorations. =) Bob - AE6RV _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.