Remembrances of vacuum tube days
As a young teenager, I developed a love for electronics which became a lifelong love affair. In those days vacuum tubes were the norm and solid state devices such as transistors weren't in usage then....
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LScamper wrote:
The first checks done at low voltage about 10 kV. Don't remember what state things are in for the picturs (some 25 years ago). You can see two shorting hooks (JESUS sticks as someone called them in previous post) sitting on top of the amplifier. I'm sure there was hard shorts on all storage caps. When higher voltage the sides had covers on and the cables on the outside. As an aside these tubes were seasoned at 50kV plate votage for the 2.5 gigawatt amplifier string.
OK, now it makes sense. 50kv plate voltage? machines I worked on never went that high, maybe 20kv max, still enough to ruin your day if contacted!
