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Old 18th Sep 2019, 11:11 pm   #8
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Default Re: Regentone A133 HT smoothing capacitors, V4 cathode resistor

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Originally Posted by turretslug View Post
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.
Seems a strange basically cost cutting idea, I presume the owners instruction book/manual would inform how to use the PU socket.
John
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