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Kirby Puckett dead at 45

Whispers about Puckett's mental state started not long after he was forced into retirement. His physical state was obviously deteriorating in a dramatic fashion. I wouldn't excuse beating on women, regardless, but if he did it, there may have been reasons for it beyond mere scumbaggery. It seems to...

Poet: J.J. Redick

I heard on "sports talk" radio that every once in a while after a big play Redick will give The Shocker, clearly this makes him a douchebag but I think its great that a big time basketball player chose that as his celebration gesture.

Prolonging Valves

Oh, okay, that makes sense if its class A since it will draw max current for the full cycle. Everything I was talking about was with respect to push-pull class AB. I'm not even gonna try to wrap my head around an amp like the ac30 that's sort of class A but really class AB. I guess all you have to d...

Prolonging Valves

Well, at the 280V that this amp operates at, in the most extreme example within the 5ma range, if the tubes were 35ma and 35ma on the push half, and 40ma and 40ma on the pull half, that would work out to 19.6W on the push, and 22.4W on the pull. You'd be better off with one 35ma and one 40ma on eac...

Prolonging Valves

Well, they were *SOLD* to me as 8 matched tubes. But when I just took the first four and dropped them in the amp, they were drawing crazy currents. Like, V4 was drawing 35ma and V8 was drawing 44ma (which I think might actually be outside the safe operating range of an EL84 at the ~280V plate that ...

Prolonging Valves

I bought a matched octet (8 valves) of EL84's, and spent about two hours finding the best four and specific order for them that ended up with the power on each half of the output transformer as close as possible. Ended up within about half a watt, which I'm really happy with. If I pulled them out a...

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