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In Reply to: it won't matter if it does short... becoming a direct heat cathode? posted by 6SJ7 on September 20, 2004 at 09:25:44:
Exactly... lots of the '30s Zenith radios used the similar 6X5G (an 84 with an octal base) and lots of them had power transformers fry... either fuse the HV or (better) use a separate filament transformer.
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- Re: it won't matter if it does short... becoming a direct heat cathode? - Tom Bavis 17:28:46 09/20/04 (1)
- thank you for the head-up, so other than 6X5G & 84 what other rectifiers tend to short the cathode and filament (NT) - 6BQ5 18:22:21 09/20/04 (0)