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To: svcw

“Does EMP effect tubes?”

It does, but the tubes don’t care. It can arc and do little damage to a tube.

Tubes operate on the order of 100’s of volts. A (damaging) arc in a semiconductor junction can occur on the order of 10’s of volts


159 posted on 04/07/2013 7:34:49 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: RFEngineer

Thanks


160 posted on 04/07/2013 7:42:12 AM PDT by svcw (If you are dead when your heart stops, why aren't you alive when it starts.)
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