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Published by orbsycli 11-19-2007
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Pyrotex 
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11-19-2007
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| Re: Tubes Well, they're round. You know, like a circle, and that means... Well, first of all, they're long. And they're hollow. And open at both ends. So that means if'n you put something in one end, it will come out the other. Tubes make good nozzles for squirting water. If'n you put one end of a tube in lemonade and suck on the other end, you'll get a mouth full of lemonade, which is a good thing. If'n you take a tube that's straight, you can look through it and pretend it's a telescope. Tubes are real good for holding toilet paper. Tubes. They're not just for macaroni and cheese any more. |
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#2
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freeztar
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11-19-2007
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| Re: Tubes Hahaha Pyro.  Quote:
http://www.tubesnow.com/ If not, can you be more specific? | |
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#3
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Turtle
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11-19-2007
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 Re: Tubes the password is...thermionic vacuum tube.  (OK fine; that's a phrase, but all I had in my mind was Allen Ludden  )Nothin' like a wiki to make your mind ticky.   >> Vacuum tube - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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#4
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orbsycli
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11-19-2007
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| Re: Tubes Quote:
so they just "amplify the signal" ? | |
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#5
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Turtle
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11-19-2007
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| Re: Tubes Quote:
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Uh...erm...well...the article covers many of the uses in depth. I miss the warm glow of thermionic vacuum tubes sneaking out the vent slots in the back of a radio.  | ||
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#7
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Pyrotex
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11-20-2007
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| Re: Tubes Quote:
Consider the incredibly professional looking drawing that I have attached.  This is a basic Triode, as it has 3 elements in the tube. The middle element is called the "grid" because it was often a piece of... well... call it "fly screen". A large voltage is applied to the left pin, say 100 volts. This heated the "filament" or "anode" on the left side, so that it emitted herds of angry electrons (the blue arrows), that were attracted to the positive element on the right (the "cathode"). If no voltage at all was applied to the grid, then a steady voltage would come out the cathode. Most of the electrons flow freely and with much esprit d'corps over to the right element. We'll say half of them, 50 volts would be the normal, and the other half of the electrons are wasted on the glass tube (which makes it HOT).But now, let's put a tiny, weak, sickly electrical signal to the grid. Say, a signal that only goes from -5 volts to +5 volts. All this does is give the grid an electrical charge; no current actually flows. But the grid, with its tiny tiny plus or minus charge, makes a HUGE difference in the amount of current flowing from anode to cathode (blue arrows). A tiny -5 volts potential can TOTALLY STOP all flow of current in the tube!  A tiny +5 volts can pull ALL the electrons from the cathode and deliver a whopping 100 volts to the cathode. And so a tiny input signal at the grid can impose its identity on a HUGE flow of current from anode to cathode. The little signal at the grid has been DUPLICATED with a much larger amplitude--we call this "amplification". | |
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Last edited by Pyrotex; 11-20-2007 at 09:35 AM.
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