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Originally Posted by old_coot88
Either that or keep a milliameter in the cathode leg.
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With that thought in mind, or perhaps fusing the circuit; I simply broke the cathode leg and soldered in two strands of wire long enough to reach well outside the chassis. So far I have no permanent mounting and not sure what I will do there. No big deal, but it is really convenient to be able to wire in my Simpson 260 for these checks. When I'm done I just throw on a wire nut and go about my business.
I used stranded wire as that is what I had on hand. I think in the present case of the wires moving around a bit and for future routing purposes that stranded was the right decision.
I hadn't thought of using a bulb really. Sounds like a good idea if you know the nature of the bulb meaning what it would look like at it's brightest lumination and 'normal'. It would look a bit raggedy, but you could simply have it dangling under the set to be observed while watching the set. For that matter I guess you could put it in the tuner indicator! LOL