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"Gregory D. MELLOTT" mentions:
My luck (quite some time ago) with FETs was not nice either. Someone may have to
correct my, yet the only way I think one can get away with fiddling with the
things the way most people construct, might be to use zener diodes between the
gate and source and drain.

Some day... I'm going to mess about wit zener diodes... I tried to always
keep myself grounded, pinching the leads together with a hemostat, but..
maybe the soldering iron did it, yea, uh huh. :-)

Once its all together and apparently functioning one
probably could remove them then with less worry about then getting a little
static jolt and ruining the junction. Tubes are a lot more forgiving.

I hear ya about tubes being more forgiving, much more fun, too.

Just wish they didn't have such weird power requirements.

Jamie
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