TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1932.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
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RADIO TOPICS
THE VALVES IN YOUR
SET
IT PAYS TO LOOK AFTER THEM
A wireless correspondent to a Malayan newspaper emphasises the necessity of looking after the valves in a wireless set. He also says, you should never run your set with the Grid-Blas plugs out.
awful distortion and
After only a few weeks of this use one day it exploded, due, no doubt, to a weakening of the glass caused by the excessivo hent and that was the end of that valve.
and that is what happened to the pentodes in my case. I now it fuses in the various h.t. leads when I use pentodes..
So if you want to get the best out of your valves, treat them properly. Do not give them too much h.t.; keep to the maker's specification.
Flying Spot Pick-up. Television station WSXK of About a week before this hap the Jenkins Laboratories at pened the valve had begun to Washington, D.C., was installed get soft, and the plate current a flying spot pick-up in anticipa. was gradually going up and up tion of going on the air with while the valve was in use, so direct pick-up by camera this that it would not have been long, autumn. Until the present the in any case, before the emission Washington station has broad- would have reined, and the valve cast motion pictures only, lack would have been of no furthering the equipment for direct
pick-up. Internal Breakdown.
With the co-operation of prominent groups in both Washington and Baltimore, Maryland, the station plans to offer a series of interesting pro- grammes, and is now getting ready for the inauguration of this
use.
I have just heard of the case may say that I recently lost a of a keen wireless enthusiast really good large six-volt super-
In the case of the pentode, such who went away for a few days' power vave simply because it careless treatment is even more holiday leaving his set, quite a was run for half an hour with likely to be fatal, for I have ruin good four-valver, in the hands of the grid-bins plug out. The ed several of these five-electrode the family to be used as they emission of that valve, when valves by giving them too much wished. When he came back, he properly biased with proper h.t., ht found he was getting the most had dropped from 35 to 20 mil- The electrodes have to be so!
that no liamps. It was a really big| thing he could do would clear it valve, as you may imagine; but, close together that too much h.t. is liable to cause a breakdown of course, is now totally useless. between them, with fatal results; So in desperation he asked So be kind to your valves, and me to go round and have a look. whenever you change your grid- spent some time over the set, bias voltage, take your b.t., and eventually came to the con-plug out firal. Never have a clusion that the valves had lost grid-blas plug out when the b.t. their emission; so we tested plug is in. them with a miilliammeter, and
up.
A Very Short Life, found that that was really what And while discussing the had taken place.
grid-biasing of valves, it may be As far as we could see, there just as well to remember that was no reason why they should too much h.t. may have the same have gone in his absence, but in- effect as too little g.b. I recent quiries among the family elucid-ly lost a very good valve through ated the fact that the day after running it at an h.t. voltage he went away the set was going greatly in excess of the maxi- quite well at the beginning of mum recommended by the mak- THE LIANG YOU CO. the evening, but not long after-ers.
True, I expected the valve to wards results began to get dis-
have a very short life, and was torted.
Then it was that one of the running it from the point of members of the family noticed a view of testing the absolute little red plug from one of the maximum apparently safe out- batteries hanging out, apparent put which that valve would give. ly doing nothing; and so they It was working excellently on tucked that into the battery about 850 volts h.t., instead of where they thought it ought to the recommended 200, and, al- Ebe, and the distortion, instead of though it got very, very hot, the
being better, was worse.
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"A Lot of Black Plugs.” They thereupon put the little red plug "right up at one end of the battery," away from a "lot of black plugs" which they saw,
results left nothing to be desired. But, naturally, the valve had a very, very short life.
ADVICE YOU MAY NEED
the subject to be televised, which is then picked up by the banked photocells arranged to catch the light reflected from the subject.
In the camera method, which will teately be used, the sub. ject is luminated by flood light ing and the photocell is placed behind the canning disc. The television camera gives much greater flexibility and range, al- lowing the televisor to pick up a stage seven feet by seven feet, whereas the firing spot will only allow for a half-length pichire, or about three by three.
Following... the
example
of
America Finland is to have a chain of wireless stations. It is belleved that twelve of these will be sufficient to serve the country.
A little drop in business does not bother Charles Littlewood, * steeplejack (says Reuter from Dan ver, Massachusetts).
He fell 70ft. from the top of a service:
The flying spot method is that flagpole. At the hospital it was method of picking up television found he had received only minor in images in which the scanning | brúises, so he took the afterndon: disc projects a spot of light on off and repaired a roof.
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and the distortion, though a little bit better, was still very bad;
One easily overlooked snag în | Pig's Chitlings and so they gave it up as a bad
Brains job.
short wave working is the use of If these We then saw at once what had metal panel brackets.
Feet happened.
Fry Evidently the posi- are placed too near the coils or tive grid-bias plug had been grid wiring the set may working without grid-biss and considerably in sensitivity and with the grids of all the l.f. valves general efficiency. "in the air."
loose
Head
Haart
Kidneys
Liter
Then they placed the grid-bias Among the common causes of Pork Chop plug in the battery, but in the weak reception are dirty contacts wrong position, so that all the at the aerial terminal and the valves were running with too aerial swithc, and soot or direct little grid-bias, or with a posl collecting on the insulators. tive blaa --we never knew which.
Finally they found the right| Any break in the earth wire, place, and put it in right at the even underground, will generally
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great number of you - I might A two-volt battery is fully Catton Fresh Water: say, perhaps, the majority of discharged when the voltage: you never run your sets with reading is 1.8. A four-volt bat the grid-bias plugs out, yet I ara tery is fully discharged when the just as sure there must be a lot voltage reading is 3,6, and a six- who take their grid-bias plugs volt accumulator when the volt- out to try different tappings age is 5.4. while searching for the best position without in any way The specific gravity of the cells Dai thinking what is happening to in an accumulator newly receiv-Dog P the valves.
ed from the charging station Cogerk Now, if you take an ordinary should be about 1.2. super-power valve, having, say,
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18 volts grid-blas, with 120 volta When the specific gravity of careups h.t., you will find that it is taking any of its, cells falls to 1.15 or adgton somewhere about 18 milliamps, thereabouts, the accumulator re possibly a little more, depending
quires recharging. upon the actual characteristics of the valve.
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If revoltage or hydrometer
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Suppose you come to the con- readings show that one cell in a Lonch.. clusion that the grid-bias wants altering, that it is not quite four or six-volt battery is show enough, or a little too much, readings widely different you immediately pull out the from its fellow of fellows, this bias plug and search around to fact should be pointed out when
it is returned to the charging PARIS TAK pop it into another tapping. What happens? The grid of that station, so that It may receive per valve has lost ita negative poten- special treatment when rep tial, and immediately the resist charging. ance of the valve drops.
Oysters
Apart from spilling or leakage, pa Raising H.T. Voltage, a cărtain amount of the electro") In other words, it is, tant- amount to raising the hit. volete in an accumulator is lost by gassing, so that a supply of dis- nge, for the pull of the piste, tiled water should be kept on voltage on the electrons is in hand to make good this loss... creased many times, the electrons passagYELER
fly over and the plate current. Never let the little holes in goes up, say, to somewhere about the plug at the top of an sacen 40 to 60 milliamps. Not only mulater become stopped bad for the hot battery; but very there play bad indeed for the filament,
allowing, the
Just to how you how very] [20 vital this grid-blas business l
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