Re: 811A first light

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Original poster: "Brent Turner by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bturner-at-apc-dot-net>

Hooooeeeey!

Son of CoronaTron???  :-)

You should be able to get 24" of discharge with a 4-1000. Especially if
you overvolt the plate. (For *short* run times...)

- brent



Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Dr. John Gudenas by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <comsciprof-at-ameritech-dot-net>
> 
> Hi Brent
> No argument, I should have elaborated more on "device". Note the size of my
> grid leak resistor just to keep three 811A's happy and allow run time up to
> 4 minutes before the plates are cherry red and this is around 500 mA.
> However, all is about to change. I was with Bert Hickman at a local Ham fest
> last weekend and picked up a NOS  GE 4-1000A and Eimac socket. I have a
> plate transformer from an old TV station and all the other parts I need (but
> time). When it lights, I'll post the list. Thanks for filling in the
> details.
> John W. G.