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turretslug · 18th Sep 2019, 1:51 pm

I gather that where there was a PU connection but no switch, the user was simply expected to tune to a quiet spot on the dial to make use of it! I'm not sure how common this practice was but even the GEC BRT400, a large, expensive and sensitive communications receiver adopted this way of doing things, so I guess it would have worked most of the time. Seems odd when the saving was a simple bit of switching, though.

18th Sep 2019, 1:51 pm	#4
turretslug Dekatron Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Surrey, UK. Posts: 4,396	Re: Regentone A133 HT smoothing capacitors, V4 cathode resistor I gather that where there was a PU connection but no switch, the user was simply expected to tune to a quiet spot on the dial to make use of it! I'm not sure how common this practice was but even the GEC BRT400, a large, expensive and sensitive communications receiver adopted this way of doing things, so I guess it would have worked most of the time. Seems odd when the saving was a simple bit of switching, though.