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Old 10-03-2019, 10:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Tube TV View Post
That seems quite low, some of that could be the electrolytics loading the circuit down as they charge. To me it looks like its ahead of the transformer and rectifier.
You could power it up and watch the rectifier tube for arcing, and red plating.
without that white wire attached to the 5U4 tube socket the tube doesn't arc anymore which I'm guessing means that the filter choke is bad.
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