Comment by preisschild
2 months ago
Yeah the tube is essentially a large capacitor :P
I also learned electronics by shocking myself often
2 months ago
Yeah the tube is essentially a large capacitor :P
I also learned electronics by shocking myself often
It's not the tube (which is just a chamber for an electron gun. It's the high voltage capacitors used to hold charge for the supply driving the electron gun.
It's the tube itself which forms the capacitor. I'm not aware of any sets that used a separate capacitor across the final anode voltage.
You either learn by shocking yourself, or die trying.
The survival selection is real in electronics.