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Old 05-21-2018, 11:47 AM
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Originally Posted by dieseljeep View Post
Paranoia runs deep, into your life it will creep!
The sets built in the 240 volt areas used valves (tubes) that had a higher heater voltage at lower current. Many times they added up to more than 120 volts, so they only had to drop less voltage from 240 volts. The mains dropper was a high wattage item and still a common failure item.
I've worked on TVs and radios for years just by identifying what prong is connected to the chassis, plugging it into the neutral side of the receptacle, and then lifting the ground on my test quipment to break the ground loop. Never once shocked myself, but I always checked voltage to ground before touching anything. There's no way I'm the only one to do it this way, it is obvious and easy, but only one mistake away from a shock. It's nice to get rid of all that nonsense.
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