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well, after some research, but some things still unanswered and there's more to come!

- Most commercial designs leave all tubes open, without screens; the old tube stuff I remember always had small-signal tubes screened. Do I need those screens, really? Or, the opposite, wouldn't a metal screen cause overheating?

- Does it make any sense to power heaters with regulated DC rather than AC? In the old designs, I frequently see DC heater biasing to kill heater-cathode AC currents, would I need anything like with DC powered heater?

- Any good feedback on Bartolucci transformers? that's the nearest source to me.


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Topic - New to tubes - questions - klaus 00:02:14 03/14/00 (1)


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