AW: [sdiy] Using Tubes in SDIY

[Glen]

At 01:20 AM 12/29/04 , Motohiko Takeda wrote:

>6BC8 is so hard to get here in Japan. and I head that 12AT7 can be used
>instead of 6BC8. I check Ep-Ip chart, but it looks like don't work
>well. How do you think about this?

You might want to visit these two pages for more tube information:

http://www.nostalgiaair.org/Tubes/

http://www.nostalgiaair.org/tubes/6bc8.htm

I hope you are aware that the filaments in a 12AT7 are designed to work
with 12 volts, and the filaments in the 6BC8 are designed to work with 6 volts.


take care,
Glen

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