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Of course, I've read his post, he was just still trying to prove graphite plate 6080 will be 100c hotter than regular plate 6080, that's obviously ridiculous, there is nothing to prove an error, he mistakenly treated a tube's max heat rating as its actual heat generated and now he wanted to use a thermal gun to prove he's correct...I was like what?!
Then you stepped in and tried to say we were looking at the different things, and came up with the nit-picky thing on grid current, what do you expect me to respond...
No significant grid current will flow in class A1, we are talking pico amps of current with the grid biased negative, it will not contribute in any measurable way to the temperature rise or power dissipation. It's only significant in a class A2 amplifier, which doesn't apply to any 6AS7G OTL design.