[ScubaMan2017]

I got it from a 450v cap in a Cary amp once. Once was enough, and fortunately I didn't die. At least I don't think I did.

With my grade 9 students, I natter on about how it's the current, not the voltage that's dangerous. I also have to deal with the AC versus DC fallacy... which one is more dangerous to use on a workbench (after that lesson, I occasionally get the odd hell-i-on who takes a dozen or so flashlight batteries and wire them up in series). Sigh.... BTW, I like how @Mr Trev zapped himself... and then did it again to look at the pretty arc. (+1) Nice! I'm working hard on making more proto-Mr_Trev (s) come up through the ranks.

 

[bcowen]

With my grade 9 students, I natter on about how it's the current, not the voltage that's dangerous. I also have to deal with the AC versus DC fallacy... which one is more dangerous to use on a workbench (after that lesson, I occasionally get the odd hell-i-on who takes a dozen or so flashlight batteries and wire them up in series). Sigh.... BTW, I like how @Mr Trev zapped himself... and then did it again to look at the pretty arc. (+1) Nice! I'm working hard on making more proto-Mr_Trev (s) come up through the ranks.

ROFL! Just be sure you're not the one getting the credit for the idiotic zap victim that goes fatal.

 

[bcowen]

If anybody uses their amp upside down, I found a rectifier tube you should buy.

 

[Mr Trev]

With my grade 9 students, I natter on about how it's the current, not the voltage that's dangerous. I also have to deal with the AC versus DC fallacy... which one is more dangerous to use on a workbench (after that lesson, I occasionally get the odd hell-i-on who takes a dozen or so flashlight batteries and wire them up in series). Sigh.... BTW, I like how @Mr Trev zapped himself... and then did it again to look at the pretty arc. (+1) Nice! I'm working hard on making more proto-Mr_Trev (s) come up through the ranks.

Aw hell. That's just the tip of the iceberg of stupid s--t I did in my younger days

 

[bcowen]

Aw hell. That's just the tip of the iceberg of stupid s--t I did in my younger days

Youth is irrelevant in my case.

 

[triggsviola]

Another acquisition. This one is my new favorite. A Russian 6H8C from the 1960s that I got from Uspcale. Cheap and cheerful. Smooth and nice.

 

[rgmffn]

Another acquisition. This one is my new favorite. A Russian 6H8C from the 1960s that I got from Uspcale. Cheap and cheerful. Smooth and nice.

I have 3 of those. I really liked them when I first got them. One especially, stands out. But it soon fell out of my (RRR) routinely rolled rotation. I acquired them early on in my hunt, for the Holy Grail. Nothing wrong with them though.

 

[Keno18]

Spent the day listening to the 1964 Sylvania JHD 5670s that arrived today. I didn't expect such big sound out of a,littlte tube. So far the top end is just a little rolled off from the 6sn7gt mouse ears, not worse just different. The sound stage is very wide and the imaging is 3 dimensional. The low end is tight with a good slam of authority. It checks all the boxes of what I look for in a tube. At no time did I feel the urge to change to another tube as if I was missing something. This was a real bargain at less than $11 a tube. If there are better sounding versions of this tube then I'm in for a real treat.

 

[bcowen]

Spent the day listening to the 1964 Sylvania JHD 5670s that arrived today. I didn't expect such big sound out of a,littlte tube. So far the top end is just a little rolled off from the 6sn7gt mouse ears, not worse just different. The sound stage is very wide and the imaging is 3 dimensional. The low end is tight with a good slam of authority. It checks all the boxes of what I look for in a tube. At no time did I feel the urge to change to another tube as if I was missing something. This was a real bargain at less than $11 a tube. If there are better sounding versions of this tube then I'm in for a real treat.

Have you tried a Western Electric 396A? Not gonna find 'em for $11 a tube unfortunately, but they are one of the greats in that tube family (IMO).

 

[Keno18]

Have you tried a Western Electric 396A? Not gonna find 'em for $11 a tube unfortunately, but they are one of the greats in that tube family (IMO).

I'll be on the lookout for that, thanks for the tip.

 

[ScubaMan2017]

Another acquisition. This one is my new favorite. A Russian 6H8C from the 1960s that I got from Uspcale. Cheap and cheerful. Smooth and nice.

Would you mind showing "us" it at work (the glow). I'm happy with my Slovakian glass (JJ Electronics); however, it's not as incandescent as my stock tube.

 

[triggsviola]

Would you mind showing "us" it at work (the glow). I'm happy with my Slovakian glass (JJ Electronics); however, it's not as incandescent as my stock tube.

Sure! This is the only angle where you can see the glow with these tubes.

 

[Robert Padgett]

Would you mind showing "us" it at work (the glow). I'm happy with my Slovakian glass (JJ Electronics); however, it's not as incandescent as my stock tube.

The JJ has a good glow in a semi-dark room, especially inside the plate. But it takes a time exposure to really see them glow.

 

[bcowen]

The JJ has a good glow in a semi-dark room, especially inside the plate. But it takes a time exposure to really see them glow.

I don't care about the glow...I want a tube with green plates like that.

 

[Robert Padgett]

I don't care about the glow...I want a tube with green plates like that.

Do your time exposures with a mercury halide dusk to dawn lamp outside the window...eerie green glow.