[Tubejunke]

Mr. Coot, I must stop for a moment here and say thanks so much for reading into what is only limited information and trying to help someone sort out a situation like this. I am often amazed at the amazing amount of information retained and conveyed through people like you who I can only assume must have been lucky enough to work in the electronics field when it was what I refer to as real electronics.

As a student of the discipline myself I have often felt cut short by what has in many ways become a dumbed down craft both in education and in "the field." A lot of it has to do with the throw away society that we have evolved into that simply leaves no place to exercise the kind of knowledge that was once almost commonplace. I could go on and on in a rant here, but I work every day around "techs" who can't even read an analog meter. If they understood what they are looking at, they wouldn't understand how to use multipliers. There are those who by the grace of God know AC from DC, but really just the terms more than what they really are based on electron theory along with the fairly rudimentary understanding of the sinusoidal wave and how it can be altered to create the later. They don't have a need to know for one thing I guess to give them credit. It truly is a plug and play world now and I can't say enough in thanks to those who help pass the torch of what could become a lost art. Certainly, were a long way from vintage color TVs and such, but I truly believe that it takes a vast understanding of electronics to be successful at doing what we do here at VK and other places like it. I think the common Radio and TV repairman of yesteryear would bear the same or more knowledge than that of someone with a graduate degree these days.