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Comment by fennecbutt

2 days ago

It's not the tube (which is just a chamber for an electron gun. It's the high voltage capacitors used to hold charge for the supply driving the electron gun.

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userbinator  1 day ago

It's the tube itself which forms the capacitor. I'm not aware of any sets that used a separate capacitor across the final anode voltage.

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