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06-18-2014, 03:40 PM
If the cause for low performance is gas, then the tube can arc. This is especially true for rectifiers and power output tubes. This can cause a output transformer,power transformer, field coil, interstage transformer or choke failure rather quickly.
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Old tubes - by fields 100 - 06-13-2014, 06:06 AM
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RE: Old tubes - by Eliot Ness - 06-17-2014, 07:35 AM
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