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| 001:
I see a lot of tube power supplies in the tread What way You are using tube PS for? I mean in 2019 I remember what all similar PS have high voltage spikes if You turn it off and no current limit anyway :-// |
| vk6zgo:
--- Quote from: 001 on September 26, 2019, 08:04:15 pm ---I see a lot of tube power supplies in the tread What way You are using tube PS for? I mean in 2019 I remember what all similar PS have high voltage spikes if You turn it off and no current limit anyway :-// --- End quote --- If you are using them with tubes, such devices have a high degree of immunity to high voltage transients, as do many high voltage solid state devices, which are often used with relatively simple supplies. Many quite advanced tube power supplies exist which do have current limiting. Turn off of tube supplies can mean many things, such as turning the whole thing off, where, as the heaters are still hot, will result in a graceful drop in voltage to zero as they cool down. None of the tube power supplies I remember using had a separate switch for applying already present voltage to the output terminals. They were pretty much "turn the thing on from scratch". Transmitter power supplies are an exception, where they sometimes applied HT progressively to different sections of the equipment. The only comment I have seen regarding "voltage spikes" is where people are using tube based supplies to provide solid state type voltage levels. This is a long way from the original intended use of these power supplies. |
| Michael Lloyd:
Mine gets used in vintage Ham radio circuits (tube). |
| SLJ:
Half my bench is vacuum tube equipment. That's mostly what I work on. |
| TheUnnamedNewbie:
While technically not vacuum tubes, I do have a multimeter that still uses nixies (keithley 164). Does that count? |
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