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Re: 83 Mercury Vapor Rectifiers

Vincent -

Don't bother with an 83 in a Hickok tester. A simple adapter using 1N4007's works fine, and reduces the load on the power transformer. Alan Douglas's Book on Tube testers has a diagram for the adapter.

This is not true for the 5Y3 btw.



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