Re: inductive heaters

To: neon-l@netcom.com
Subject: Re: inductive heaters
From: neonthom@earthlink.net
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 22:37:31 -0400
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Morgan wrote:

>Al,
>if you heated the electrodes first, then the trash that comes out of the
>glass would stick to the electrodes as they would be at less that "degassing
>temp".  Keeping all of the glass above this temp while also bringing the
>electrodes up to "degass temp" is the tricky part.
>And I must say one of the beautiful aspects of "conventional" electric
>bombarding - you can hold both glass (all of it) above these magic temps
>(for each of them) while they degass some, then stop bombarding, and suck
>all this newly liberated stuff out before (or most of it anyway) even before
>the temp cools to "readsorption" temps.
>Morgan

Morgan-

What is the "reabsorption" temp to a tube and are there other variables
that come into play?  By that I'm wondering, since some phosphers are more
sensitive to absorbing moisture, etc., do they reabsorb crud at different
temps?

Tom U.