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Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

Never burned a tube on my Barco's but would this be a good safety switch to add for an emergency ?

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 3:32 am Post subject:

Jus as long as you make it a big red one.

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

Nice easy to find button ! I like that ! Mr. Green

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 3:35 am Post subject:

I stold that here:
STOP!

Cousin.It · Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 41 Location: Hurst, TX

Uh....

YOU BREAK IT, YOU BOUGHT IT!

-Mark

Cousin.It · Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 41 Location: Hurst, TX

What are you planning to use this for?

If its a manual switch, it might be that in most cases by the time you think you want to use the switch its too late. The Barco's have a lot of detection circuitry built-in to attempt to already catch the most basic, common failures that might cause a scan fail and burn a streak across your tube... ouch!

If you want something to kill it while your "pulling maintenance", you can pull the EHT board out....

-Mark

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 3:03 pm Post subject:

I wouldn't bother. I've never seen a Barco with spot burn. No wait.. I have... I was playing with a defective neck board the other day, 'fixed' it, and it spot burned my test set. Under normal circumstances I can't see it happening though.