Grid leak

Grid leak

Grid leak is the small current through the grid of a thermionic valve into the circuit which feeds the grid. It is an inherent operating characteristic of triodes and other vacuum tubes.This current is caused by the small negative EMF which is present in all vacuum valves as a result of a space charge within the envelope of the tube. The space charge is part of the thermionic effect, which is the fundamental phenomenon behind all vacuum tubes.

Use

The grid leak detector was in common use in the 1920s in domestic radio receivers. The grid leak detector stage is a non-linear amplifier, which performs two, or more often three functions.
* Detection: The nonlinearity of the stage produces an audio frequency detected component in the anode load. In this circuit the grid acts like the anode of a diode. Detection takes place in the grid circuit.
* AF amplification: The stage is an AF amplifier as well as a detector, thus it gives much better sensitivity than a diode detector.
* Reaction: in most cases feedback was added to give reaction (aka regeneration) to boost sensitivity and selectivity further.


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