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RE: Strange failure mode of cathode resistors

You certainly were not using wire-wound resistors! So With heating their value drifted without the part otherwise showing signs of damage.

A 5 watt minimum wire-wound is recommended to survive arc-over events.

I would expect more than just 8 watts from that many tubes! Are you having saturation problems in the driver circuit?


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