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Originally Posted by Yamamaya42
However, it's been proven that the SS substitute for the HV rectifier will not work, and overheat and burn up, it happened to me, and to shango066 ( as seen in one of his videos ) on a CTC-16.
Not sure why it smokes, but it seems only the good old glass type works.
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Strange. I used to use the EDI 3A3 sub towards the end of the tube era and they worked fine (I think it was EDI, it had a brown and black box). I used both the 3A3 and 3AT2. They were nice because the 3A3 subbed the 1V rectifier tubes in B&W TVs as well as offer X-Ray protection, or so they claimed.
When we changed my dad's original sulfide CRT in his CTC11 with a HiLite rare earth tube, it would eat up 3A3s every couple of months (blooming). We put in an EDI 3A3 and lasted a day and failed. We returned it for exchange and the replacement lasted another 5-6 years or so until the replacement picture tube got weak and it was retired for a '77 XL100.
I cannot say with any degree of certainty that I used on in a CTC16 specifically though.
John