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Old 02-16-2006, 08:47 PM
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I concur that this device is a varistor...it probably has greatest advantage in series filament sets which use tubes not all having controlled warmup time. You can sometimes see certain tubes surge in lighting up very brightly for a few seconds at turn on in series sets and the varistor device may help control the current surge into the cold tube filaments.
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