On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 00:20:51 GMT Robert Baer
wrote:

Jim Adney wrote:

Yes, it probably wasn't much of a "standard," but it was close enough,
and probably within 1%, which was better than almost anything else in
those days.

Cannot get 1% accuracy with (at best) 5% cathode resistors.....

For Dynaco, at least, I believe they used special 1% resistors here.
But I have to agree that even that would not assure 1% precision in
the idle current setting.

OTOH, I'm sure it was good enough for what they needed.

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Jim Adney
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