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cddc replied to the thread Crack;Bottlehead OTL.The war only impacts Russian new production tubes, but those new production tubes can hardly compete with NOS tubes. There are tons of... -
I see! Many thanks. Glad to know that tubes are still so plentiful. I guess I was worried because I heard people saying there is a...
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cddc replied to the thread For 6AS7G tube rollers here ......Max temperature only means the said tube can stand such temperature, so yeah, with stronger graphite plates Raytheon graphite plate 6080...
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cddc replied to the thread Crack;Bottlehead OTL.Normally new or NOS tubes last 5k - 10k hours under normal load, but in Crack they are lightly loaded, so they will last even longer. So...
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The FAA-6080WA/TA-26 was on while I was gone, no music was playing, and the FAA-6080WA measured 126F when I got back (and turned off the...
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cddc replied to the thread For 6AS7G tube rollers here ......There is no need to compare temperature on two tubes with the same specs. Both 6080 and 6AS7G draw 2.5A heater current, and they also...
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cddc replied to the thread Headphone Tube Amps - The hunt for all 300B TUBE AMPS.Indeed, they're bloody expensive, which prevented 300B amps from becoming popular. Why a light bulb (essentially) can be sold for such...
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cddc replied to the thread The Reference 6SN7 Thread.Agree, the guys from Psvane are idiots, they are trying to market their new production 6SN7 tube as ECC32/CV181.
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I think part of the confusion is that Psvane has a tube that they try to pass off as ecc32 (cv181 to be specific), but mostly has the...
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cddc replied to the thread The Reference 6SN7 Thread.I have to copy&paste what I wrote in the Woo WA2 thread yesterday, in case some folks think ECC32 and 6SN7 are equivalent and can...
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I remember purchasing this military spec ECC32/CV181 from 1946 many years ago from eBay “untested”. I was just happy when I received it...
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Wrong information: Mullard ECC32 is not compatible with WA 2!
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cddc replied to the thread Woo WA2 Tube Rolling Recommendations.Many folks mistakenly treat ECC32 the same as 6SN7, but they are really not! ECC32 draws 0.95A heater current (vs 0.6A from 6SN7), so...
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cddc replied to the thread The Reference 6SN7 Thread.It's just simply supply and demand. Most amps use 6.3v heaters, so the 6.3v version tubes are normally in much higher demand. While few...
