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Old 11th Apr 2019, 11:20 am   #9
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Default Re: DC filament / capacitor

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Originally Posted by Levente View Post
...thanks guys...in the meantime reading through the modification suggestion, found out where the 4700uf DC filter cap was recommended to go together with a diode...

not sure why or what this will do...i am getting way confused on that

attached it....point number 10.
This looks like a modification to run some or all of the heaters on DC. It depends on the way the set is physically wired. There may be more than one wire on pin 4 or the commoning point could be elsewhere.
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