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Old 05-13-2021, 11:06 AM
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... all the tubes are tested and good...
Lots of posts here say don't trust a tube tester to tell you if the high power / high voltage tubes are OK. I would try tube substitution first.
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Lots of posts here say don't trust a tube tester to tell you if the high power / high voltage tubes are OK. I would try tube substitution first.
+1 I should have said that too. I've had testers miss sweep and HV rect tube failures that substitution caught several times before.
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