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Mostly valves are positioned other than the normal ie; vertical, due mainly for convenience of the design, valves have a better life generaly in the upright, or vertical position, as the heat is designed to go up the valve evenly, the worst position is upside down, as in many Guitar amps, but as I said, its mainly for convenience of the design.
Hope this helps.
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Some of the all valve oscilloscopes of yesteryear were so full of valves that a lot had to be mounted 'upside down'. They all had lots of perforations in the casework.
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I wonder an any non-valve electronic devices have orientation demands (and I don't want any bright spark suggesting mercury switches).
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Yes - on shipboard military electronics, the heavy transformers are mounted at the base. There is an apocryphal tale of a piece of military navel electronics where, for reasons best known to the designer, the transformers were mounted at the top of the rack - that is until they fired off a big gun and all the transformers ended up at the bottom!Originally Posted by walpurgis
I wonder an any non-valve electronic devices have orientation demands (and I don't want any bright spark suggesting mercury switches
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So they won’t cross-conbobulate. If they were all pointing in the same direction you might tear a hole in the space-time continuum! And who wants that?I have left and right monoblock power amps. The valves in my left monoblock are horizontal and in the right monoblock they are vertical. Can you figure that out?
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Aye,
http://www.thevalvepage.com/servdata...q/telequip.htm
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I had a mate that started collecting valve radios, he did amass a seriously good collection. He couldn't say no to anything with valves in so ended up with valve scopes in his hallway and most of the way up the stairs.
http://www.thevalvepage.com/index.shtml
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