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Bunky
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i just witnessed a Lightning storm inside a Teslovak KT88
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June 22, 2007, 03:33:07 PM »
i had a power tube let go today and thank god it did not damage anything except for my nerves
there was a bright blue Arc inside the tube from top to bottom. i switched back to my favorite and almost unobtainable 2nd generation Ei KT 90's until the Winged C 6550's get here from Chicago.thanks....WCW III
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WEEZ
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Re: i just witnessed a Lightning storm inside a Teslovak KT88
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June 22, 2007, 04:06:13 PM »
Yikes.
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Carlman
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Re: i just witnessed a Lightning storm inside a Teslovak KT88
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June 23, 2007, 07:22:58 PM »
Ok, so where are the photos? Sounds cool.
Can you at least make a "artist's rendering" of the event? ha...
Seriously, glad your gear is in good shape... and glad it happened when you were nearby, paying attention, etc.
-C
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Bunky
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Re: i just witnessed a Lightning storm inside a Teslovak KT88
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June 24, 2007, 06:40:01 AM »
Hey Carl,i have a picture that will be forever etched into my memory
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WEEZ
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Re: i just witnessed a Lightning storm inside a Teslovak KT88
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June 24, 2007, 07:34:59 AM »
Did the fuse blow?
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Bunky
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Re: i just witnessed a Lightning storm inside a Teslovak KT88
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June 24, 2007, 10:20:14 AM »
Quote from: WEEZ on June 24, 2007, 07:34:59 AM
Did the fuse blow?
Yeah Weez, a few days before the Lightning storm effect took place ,i had just turned on the rig and the phone began to ring and as i picked up the phone i heard a loud pop! which was the fuse. the sound did not come from the speakers themselves but from my Audio rack. i ran over to the rack to see that the other tubes had stopped glowing except for the KT88 in the LV4 position which then took a little longer for its glow to disappear. i replaced the fuse and rebiased the amp and everything seemed fine for the next few days. i switched on the amp a few days later and the fuse blew again. this time when i replaced the fuse and turned on the amp the KT88 in the LV4 position looked like something that Tesla himself would have been experimenting with
it was really scary stuff and i turned off the amp as soon as i saw it and i was very lucky that no harm was done to it. thanks....WCW III
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