Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!sdd.hp.com!spool2.mu.edu!uunet!abvax!iccgcc!witt From: witt@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Question about Vacuum Tubes. Message-ID: <3005.27a67ae1@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> Date: 30 Jan 91 12:50:57 GMT References: <17660136@hpfcdj.HP.COM> <1991Jan11.051423.16498@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1991Jan12.014729.12808@portia.Stanford.EDU> <36147@netnews.upenn.edu> Lines: 18 In article <36147@netnews.upenn.edu>, krikori@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Raffi Krikorian ) writes: > Does anyone know of a case(s) where someone was injured while using > a vacuum tube amplifier? Well, I was almost seriously burned because of a tube radio. When I was a kid, I had a real old GE radio on a table next to my bed. It wasn't in a cabinet anymore, just the chassis with all of the tubes exposed. I used to sit up late some nights tuning around on the AM band listening for stations in other states. Well, anyway, one night I fell asleep with the radio on and sometime during the night my pillow fell on top of it. I woke up to the sound of my dog barking and my foam rubber pillow blazing away next me. Luckily I didn't get burned and I was able to toss the pillow out the window. Close call. This incident definitely made me a believer in solid state electronics. Tom