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you can get test sockets for checking HO current, plug the socket in, the tube into the socked. It has test leads coming out that you hook the meter up to.
On mine I installed a small fuse holder with a 275ma fuse. Not sure I would bother doing that again, just something to make it easier to test really.
BTW there are LOTS of ideas on how to deal with 1st start ups. Some go with just plug in and watch for smoke to the more detailed monitoring of everything with very slow startup. Not saying there is a correct way, just different. IIRC the issues I ran into was some cracked solder joint on the color pcb where some high power resistors were. They stand off from the board quite a bit I presume to keep from cooking the pcb, you could tell they were a bit loose just by touching them. There were also some loose feeling sockets on some of the compactron tubes in that same area.
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