I am fascinated by CRT televisions, their ray gun, and their electric death coil. They seem like something an evil genius would dream up.
I would not dream of disassembling one, but I am fascinated by them.
I would not dream of disassembling one, but I am fascinated by them.
@ziphi They're pretty neat! one of the last holdouts of vacuum tubes in consumer electronics; now all that's left are microwaves.
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@Felthry There’s a not insignificant number of people who like the sound of vacuum tube amplifiers for guitars over solid state amps, too, as I understand it.
@ziphi Yeah, but that's not really a mass market consumer thing, that's audiophile and "i just think they're cool" retro-enthusiast stuff
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@Felthry Yeah, definitely. Aesthetic pickiness is far different from mass production for general consumers. I did not know microwaves had them!
@ziphi The actual microwaves used for heating stuff in a microwave oven are produced by a type of vacuum tube called a cavity magnetron. It's by far the cheapest and easiest way to output that much RF power.
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