"Jim Shorney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang
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On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:08:58 -0400, Garey Barrell wrote:

>Well, if you have a 27 ohm 1/2 W resistor lying around you can stick it 
>in series with the filament and see if the hum goes away!   Prove my 
>theory....  :

Yeah, 27 ohms took the hum away, bigtime.  Everything else too.  Ended up
with about 4 volts on the heater with 3.7 ohms.  Hum still there.  Maybe I
have a flakey 6BN8.  I've got a couple 8BN8s on the way now.

73

-Jim (according to the 390 guys, tube testers are for wimps...)


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