In article ,
tony sayer wrote:
Capactive droppers or wattless droppers, are nothing new, they were used
in TV 's years ago to drop the voltage required to the heater chain. Not
a bad idea really.....

I've never seen this. All the ones I've had dealings with had series
heaters with a series resistor. Some radios used special mains cord as the
resistor.

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