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Getting The Most out of Vacuum Tubes

by Robert Tomer (1960) on CD - PDF EBook

"Types and causes of tube failures, what to expect from tubes, testing methods and all about tube maintenance programs."

Nice book - 164 pages in PDF format on CD

Language: English

Chapter Contents of the book on the CD:

1. CATASTROPHIC FAILURES
Glass Failures - Heater Failures - Arcing - Fixed versus Bias

2. DEGENERATIVE FAILURES
Gas - Getters - Spurious Emissions - Interelectrode Leakage - Interface Resistance - Cathode Depletion

3. SUBJECTIVE FAILURES
Hum - Microphonics - Noise

4. CHARACTERISTIC VARIABLES
Predicting Variables - How Standards Are Set - The Bogey Tube - The Limit Tube - Correlating Measurements - Typical Correlation- Characteristic Spreads - Quality Control - Sampling - Design Tolerances

5. SELECTED AND PREMIUM TUBES
How Tubes Are Selected-Results of Tube Selection Premium Tubes - The Multi-Spec Tubes - Standardization and Reliability - How Standards Are Set-Universal Tubes - The Universal Commodity - Defining Reliability - Reliability and Standardization

6. WHY SO MANY TUBE TYPES?
Filament Voltage Sources - 2-Volt and 6.3-Volt Tubes - TV Types - Hybrid Types - Physical Changes - Miniatures and Subminiatures - Multipurpose Tubes - Electrical Characteristics - Competition - Technological Developments

7. PREDICTING TUBE PERFORMANCE
Life Expectancy By Structure - Life Expectancy By Application - Tests for Initial Performance - Predicting Life

8. TUBE TESTERS
Early Tube Testers - Classification of Tube Testers Shorts and Gas Tests - Maintenance Practices

9. SPECIAL-PURPOSE TUBES
Filamentary Tubes - Low-Voltage Tubes - Phototubes - Voltage-Regulator Tubes - Thyratrons

10. METHODS FOR LENGTHENING TUBE LIFE
Measuring Bulb Temperature - Dissipation Control Voltage and Current Regulation - Low-Voltage Operation - Mechanical-Maintenance

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Windows and Mac compatable

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