Rare Hallicrafters CTC4 clone resurrected from the dead.

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Originally Posted by old_coot88

If the replacement seleniums are gonna drop the same voltage (and hence wattage) as the power resistor, they would be dumping the same amount of heat, would they not?

But they dissipate the heat over a larger surface area, and there's no bracket to hold an extra large resistor. Plus, it appears stock. For example, I mounted my resistor on a bracket that interfers with the opening of the HV cage cover. With stock seleniums, I wouldn't have that problem.