[Claude Paillard] is truly talented. He makes triodes by hand. This is a long and arduous process that has many steps, each of which could be messed up pretty easily. [Claude] makes it look easy though.
You might recognize this from way back in 2009 when we covered it on hackaday.com
[thanks for the tip David]
THAT my friends is a lesson in patience, and diverse skills. Major respect.
I take it electrode is the term the French us to refer to a valve -electron tube or vacuum tube.
I thought the same :)
electrode is the same in french and english. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrode http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrode
The “Electrode” is probably a typo of Triode…
Please fix the title of this article — it confuses readers :). Video is titled “Fabrication d’une lampe triode”, i.e. fabrication of a triode. “Les electrodes” is the name of first part of the video where electrodes are being made.
Fixed!
You gotta have a look at this guy’s work as well: https://www.youtube.com/user/glasslinger/videos
Bravo Claude,
Vous êtes incroyable
Oui, je suis d’accord!
After years, this video still amazing me and inspiring me to build vacuum tubes – someday.
Hello!
Take a look at “glasslinger” on youtube for amateur tubemaking today.
This brings back the magic from long ago. You can’t look into a modern integrated circuit or even a transistor and see the working parts of the device (at least not without something to remove the epoxy and a high power microscope system).
A thermionic valve (electron tube) has three electrodes, a (usually heated) cathode, a control grid, and an anode. A pentode has all that and a suppressor grid and screen grid.
The common term in French for a valve (or tube) is ‘lampe’ – because it glows.
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