12LP4 post mortem

[jeyurkon]

Originally Posted by jr_tech

Wow! What happened to the heater...all that I have ever seen are a "double helix looking" design. Did it just fall apart when you pulled it out or was it really deformed during processing somehow?

(please pardon the crummy scan)

jr

I wish I knew. It was that way before I pulled it out though. Because it was so deformed it wouldn't slide out easily and that's why the leads broke off.

John