When the grid voltage of a triode valve oscillator is gradually increased from an extremely low value, an oscillation is suddenly brought to existence at certain point, accon panying considerable increase of both the average plate current and the average grid current. The +further increase of the grid voltage causes the further increase of both of the currents, whereas the intensity of oscillation shows a slight decrease after having a maximum point. At certain positively high gride voltage, the oscillation stops abruptly, and the plate current suddenly attains a large value corresponding to a point on the static characteristic curve, and the grid current shows a sudden decrease.
It is to he noted here that, when the grid voltage is relatively high, the average plate current in the oscillating condition is considerably smaller than that in the non-oscillatory state.
Now suppose that the plate voltage is made slowly pulsating by some means and the grid voltage is kept relatively high with respect to the plate voltage, then it can be understood that the high frequency oscillation can exist only for the interval of time when the plate voltage is kept sufficiently high, and the production, of this oscillation consequently reduces the average plate current. It may be said in regard of only the low frequency pulsation, that the electronic conduction within the valve acquires. a falling characteristic on account of the budding up of oscillation, so that a low frequency oscillation is excited, resulting in the consequent production of the intermittent oscillation.
Such an anomalous phenomenon can be easily observed in the usual valve oscillator circuit, as shown in Fig. 1 and Fig. 8, in which the low frequency circuit comphses the choking coil of L, Henries and the by-path condenser of C
0 Farads, and the frequency of the plate voltage pulsation or the frequency of the intermission of high frequency oscillation may be given by f
0=1/2π√L
0C
0 cycles per second.
In the present report, the writer describes the results of the experimental determination of the possible range of this anomalous phenomenon with respect to the plate voltage, the grid voltage, the filament current, the constants of the oscillation circuit, the coupling between the grid and the plate circuits, and the resistance inserted in series with the choking coil.
Such a resistance serves to stop the "noise" as produced in the oscillator system on account of this intermittent oscillation.
It is also experimentally ascertaind that when iron-core is used in the choking coil, the value of L
0 varies with the average value of the pulsating current flowing through it. Some oscillograms are shown.
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