Heater Wires - Elevate or Twist?

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Re: Heater Wires - Elevate or Twist?

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Power tubes like 6 Volts.
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Re: Heater Wires - Elevate or Twist?

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Series connected pairs run well on 12.6V.

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didit wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:29 pm Series connected pairs run well on 12.6V.

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Re: Heater Wires - Elevate or Twist?

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Yoda wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:55 pm What about Soldano? How the heaters are wired on an SLO flies in the face of everything posted here. So I think heater wires are not as critical as some make it out to be.
Yup, I don't bother with twisting for the preamp anymore, just run short straight parallel wires from socket to socket.

I do DC elevate and that is what makes the biggest difference IMHO with just 2 resistors and a cap.

I build highish gain amps and you can barely tell they're on with how quiet they are.

On the other hand I have this PRS MT15 head that hums audibly even with the volume on 0... And that uses DC heaters
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