Heated Outer Grid

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Heated Outer Grid

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Has anyone tried this......Use heating element wire(ie.similar to what is used in a space heater)to form the outer anode grid. Power it up(red hot), then apply the high voltage to it; similar to an x-ray tube. This should provide considerably more output. As far as modifications are concerned, this wouldnt be too difficult.

Just a thought I had on the way home from work today.

Mark R.
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It should be feasible to make one in a similar way to the large thoriated tungsten wire basket filaments that ceramic transmitter tubes use, possibly from tungsten welding electrode wire, but it would need to be activated with carbon to get any decent electron emission.
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You lost me on that.......

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Does this mean that the anode in a heated electron tube (ie. 3B24W or 6L6 ) is carbonized ? I thought the basics of thermionic emission would dictate a substantial increase even without a carbon activator. Now I am a bit confused on this. Could you elaborate ? Thanks
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Re: You lost me on that.......: have a look at this

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Hi Mark, there's a pretty good explanation on carburizing filaments of ceramic style power tubes at http://www.eimac.com/sec2-4.htm which explains the filament treatments used in the tube industry, according to that it's just a way of increasing tube life rather than activating it as I said earlier. This website gives some info that may be useful with regard to activating a tungsten filament to get good emission, more or less giving it a few well judged over voltage boost to get some thorium on the surface
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Re: have a look at this

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I forgot to add this URL about activating an old filament: http://www.antiqueradios.com/chrs/journ ... ation.html
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Re: have a look at this

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I think the method of applying an overvoltage to the filament for a short period of time is(was) used to rejuvenate CRT's too. Some protable CRT testers had the circuitry built in.

Dave Cooper
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Thanx !....That makes sense(N.M.)

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