How reliable?

[damen]

Originally Posted by Phil Nelson

Perhaps I'm living in an insane dream world, but I just play my roundies and don't worry about it.

If you have done a thorough job of restoration, I feel like you should be able to use the set as originally designed. Running them on a variac or other device to reduce the line voltage is a good idea.

Phil Nelson

I don't think your in a insane world for not using a fan I just think it adds a extra level of protection. What is your line voltage? mine is at 122V and the sets call for 120V I know my CTC 38 has a normal High switch on it and I use the high position on it. Seems the line voltage could be lowerd a bit by adding a resister or something to the set. Moving a variac from set to set all the time would be a be a bit much for me. I will have to look and see what RCA used to lower the voltage with the high normal switch.