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General Symbols

Ck            cathode bypass capacitance for stabilizing bias voltage
Cs            shunt capacitance for stabilizing screen voltage
D              second-harmonic distortion (percent)
Eb            static plate voltage, no signal
Ebb           d-c plate supply voltage
Ebn           plate voltage at negative limit of bias
Ebp           plate voltage at positive limit of bias
Ebz           intersection of dynamic load line with ib = 0 axis
Ec or Ec1   grid bias voltage with no applied signal
Ec2           static screen grid voltage
Ecc           grid bias supply voltage
Ek             static voltage between cathode and cathode return (usually ground)
eb             total instantaneous plate-to-cathode voltage
ec             total instantaneous grid-to-cathode voltage for triodes
ec1           total instantaneous grid-to-cathode voltage for pentodes
ec2           total instantaneous screen-grid-to-cathode voltage
ec3           bias on grid three (used with mixer tubes)
eg            a-c component of ec
eg1          a-c component of ec1
eg2          a-c component of ec2
ek            a-c component of cathode voltage
eL            instantaneous voltage across load resistance RL
ep            a-c component of eb
es             input signal voltage, instantaneous value
Gm1          nominal transconductance of pentode for eb/ec2 = 2 (first grid)
Gm2          nominal screen-to-plate transconductance for eb/ec2 = 2
Gm3          nominal transconductance from grid three to plate (used with mixer
                           tubes)
gm            triode transconductance
gm1           transconductance, for pentode first grid (corrected)
gm2           screen-to-plate transconductance for pentode (corrected)
gm12          control-to-screen transconductance
gm22          screen self-conductance
 
 
 
 
 
 

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by Robert J. Legg