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In Reply to: 83 Mercury Vapor Rectifiers posted by Vincent L on May 16, 2002 at 12:05:49:
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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- Re: 83 Mercury Vapor Rectifiers - Gary Kaufman 05/16/0217:46:36 05/16/02 (0)