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Old 07-11-2021, 09:18 PM
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I've never even heard of a B battery.
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Old 07-12-2021, 07:41 AM
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I've never even heard of a B battery.
It comes from the early days of tube radio when the 'A' battery was for filaments, 'B' battery was for the plates, and 'C' battery was for negative grid bias. Thereafter 'B plus' came to denote the plate supply of all non-battery power supplies.
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