INDEX-2 Gas triode, 2-15 Glossary, AI-1 Grid bias, introduction to, 1-22 Grid-leak biasing, 1-35 I Interelectrode capacitance, 1-43 Introduction to electron tubes, 1-1 diode tube, 1-4 Edison effect, 1-3 pentode, 1-49 summary, 1-48 thermionic emission, 1-1 triode, 1-18 tube constants, 1-38 L LC capacitor-input filter, 3-33 LC choke-input filter, 3-23 Load regulation, power supply, 3-35 M Multi-unit and multi-electrode tubes, 2-1 O Operation of the triode, 1-25 factors affecting triode operation, 1-27 overdriving the triode, 1-28 P Peak current rating, 1-18 Peak inverse voltage rating, 1-18 Peak voltage rating, 1-18 Pentode, 1-47 Planar tubes, 2-11 Plate dissipation, 1-17 Plate voltage-plate current characteristic, 1-13 Plates, diode tube, 1-10 Power supplies, 3-1 to 3-53 basic power supply the, 3-2 component problems, 3-50 Power supplies—Continued current regulation, 3-46 filters, 3-13 load regulation, 3-35 rectifiers, 3-3 regulators, 3-36 summary 3-53 transformers, 3-3 testing, 3-48 troubleshooting power supplies, 3-48 voltage regulation, 3-34 Practical rectifiers, 3-4 full-wave, 3-8 half-wave, 3-4 R Rectifiers, power supplies, 3-3 bridge rectifier, 3-11 conventional full-wave, 3-7 practical full-wave, 3-8 practical half-wave, 3-4 Regulators, power supply, 3-36 basic VR tube regulator circuit, 3-39 electron tube voltage regulator, 3-44 series voltage, 3-37 shunt voltage, 3-38 VR tubes connected in parallel, 3-43 VR tubes connected in series, 3-42 Resistor-capacitor (RC) filter, 3-31 S Series voltage regulator, 3-37 Shunt voltage regulator, 3-38 Special-purpose tubes, 2-1 beam power and power pentode tubes, 2-3 cathode-ray tube (crt), 2-18 cold-cathode tubes, 2-16 electron tube safety, 2-29 gas filled tubes, 2-15 multi-unit and multi-electrode tubes, 2-1 special uhf tubes, 2-9 summary, 2-33 summary of crts, 2-27 variable-mu tubes, 2-6