Muff's Modules & More

felix · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:18 am Post subject:

Whoa ho ho, what is this beauty here!?

Muff Wiggler · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:01 am Post subject:

seems to be a power triode.... used in 'industrial heating applications'

industrial heating never looked so sexy :shock:

felix · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:08 am Post subject:

wait.....this is in the metasonix forum....

Are you privy to some inside info!? 8)

Muff Wiggler · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject:

naw, just fucking with everyone.

Although it would be cool if Eric did for Industrial Heating what he's done for stompboxes and synth modules

Metasonix presents - THE PROSTATE PUMMELING THERMAL PUMP OF ASS DOOM!!!!

Works with all major furnace brands.

felix · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:24 pm Post subject:

The TX-3 Prostate Pummeler!

grin

metasonix · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:37 am Post subject:

Triode, for audio and RF amplifiers, usable up to 150 MHz if derated, mu of 25 (making it less suitable for single-ended use).

data sheet here if you care.
http://www.mif.pg.gda.pl/homepages/frank/sheets/030/t/TB3-750.pdf

The filament alone draws 5 volts at 14.1 amps. A pair in Class B push-pull can put out 1280 watts of audio power.

You want something that uses that thing? OK, find me a few hundred of them. Plus the massive COSTLY transformers they need. They are not made any longer, except in China--and those are usually not the best quality.

felix · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:05 am Post subject:

Muff Wiggler · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:29 am Post subject:

i remember them being all over in lots of shit when I was a kid, in industrial and home radio and amplifier stuff

then, they just disappeared and i forgot about them for i don't know how long, like 15 years or more

then i just thought of them as a niche item in guitar amps and audiophile stereos, and knew about old tube powered computers etc

lately as i've become more and more interested via owning tube amps and in particular metasonix, i realize how important they still are in a lot of applications - military, satellite, broadcast, recording. Really fascinating little things (and some aren't so little). I can totally understand how someone like Eric can spend their entire carreer focusing on them - the obscurity certainly adds some cachet, but honestly I feel from an engineering and applications point of view, they are fascinating, unique and enormously useful objects with an ENORMOUS amount of untapped potential and possibilities - one that could easily fill a lifetime of curiosity or more.

cool shit, i guess that's why i just posted that photo when i found it - just some really neat shit.

i've always found glass insulators very interesting and somewhat romantic as well. my wife thinks i'm absolutely insane but i totally understand the guys who have collections and do the glass insulator conventions etc

felix · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:51 am Post subject:

Freud would probably say it all has something to do with a phallic fixation. lol

metasonix · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:13 pm Post subject:

>the obscurity certainly adds some cachet, but honestly I feel from an engineering and applications point of view, they are fascinating, unique and enormously useful objects with an ENORMOUS amount of untapped potential and possibilities - one that could easily fill a lifetime of curiosity or more.

Attaboy, keep saying that....

>it all has something to do with a phallic fixation

Slap yourself, sonny! meh