grid leak

American  

noun

Electronics.

1. a high-resistance device that permits excessive charges on the grid to leak off or escape.

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Etymology

Origin of grid leak

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

In a box small enough to be carried around are four different kinds of electric batteries, a delicate galvanometre, two radio vacuum tubes, eleven resistors, one grid leak and four switches.

From Time Magazine Archive

The vacuum tube amplifier and the grid leak are the only new pieces of apparatus you need and not described before.

From The Radio Amateur's Hand Book by Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick)

Shunt 1/2 to 2 megohm grid leak resistance around the fixed condenser and then connect the second post of the variable condenser to one terminal of the detector tube filament.

From The Radio Amateur's Hand Book by Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick)

The way a grid leak and vacuum tube detector with a one-step amplifier are connected up is shown at A in Fig.

From The Radio Amateur's Hand Book by Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick)

In this set, which gives better results than where a grid leak is used, the amplifier tube is placed in the first oscillation circuit and the detector tube in the second circuit.

From The Radio Amateur's Hand Book by Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick)