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Re: BURNT UP ELECTRODES
Posted By: neontek In Response To: BURNT UP ELECTRODES (Andy Jackson)
Date: Thursday, 24 January 2008, at 6:30 p.m.
If that's the only changes you've made in the way you process tubes (and you had no prior problems), make sure you're getting electrodes hot enough to convert (need to be a BRIGHT cherry red/pumkin orange color). EGL electrodes take a bit more time/current to get to that point than Eurocoms do (at least in my experience).
Slowly dying Neon filled tubes on the verge of going dead become as hot as a pistol, easily frying boots.> In the past several weeks the red tubes that
> I have been bending are coming back with the
> electrodes and boots/caps burnt up. The
> loads on the transformers are within
> limitations. I recently have changed from
> Eurocom electrodes to EGL. Does anyone have
> any thoughts?
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