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<blockquote data-quote="Terryl" data-source="post: 1014111" data-attributes="member: 369937"><p>Unfortunately I lost a colleague to a 500,000 watt tube TV transmitter, he was on his way out of town going on vacation when he got the call from the studio saying the the transmitter will not come up to full power, so he swung by and went in to take a look, he told the wife and kids it may take about 15 to 20 min, he looked and saw that the main output tubes were acting up, in his hurry he forgot to discharged the high voltage side of the cabinet, he reach in to reset them (we think) and POW......150 KV.........His wife waited for about 30 before she went in to look and see what was taking so long, you all can figure the results.</p><p></p><p>So I use to play around with some very big tubes, at some very high power levels, the next week we purchased a solid state transmitter, and named the transmitter site in his honor, we junked the old one per his wife's request, she got to see it being crushed by a bulldozer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Terryl, post: 1014111, member: 369937"] Unfortunately I lost a colleague to a 500,000 watt tube TV transmitter, he was on his way out of town going on vacation when he got the call from the studio saying the the transmitter will not come up to full power, so he swung by and went in to take a look, he told the wife and kids it may take about 15 to 20 min, he looked and saw that the main output tubes were acting up, in his hurry he forgot to discharged the high voltage side of the cabinet, he reach in to reset them (we think) and POW......150 KV.........His wife waited for about 30 before she went in to look and see what was taking so long, you all can figure the results. So I use to play around with some very big tubes, at some very high power levels, the next week we purchased a solid state transmitter, and named the transmitter site in his honor, we junked the old one per his wife's request, she got to see it being crushed by a bulldozer. [/QUOTE]
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