philco tropic model 42-760
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Hi Picker and welcome,
Your power supply has what is called negative leg filtering. This makes the wiring of your filter a little different than most as most filter caps in a can have the negatives connected together, but not your set. The pluses are on your set.
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When my pals were reading comic books
I was down in the basement in my dad's
workshop. Perusing his Sam's Photofoacts
Vol 1-50 admiring the old set and trying to
figure out what all those squiggly meant.
Circa 1966
Now I think I've got!
Terry
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RE: philco tropic model 42-760 - by Radioroslyn - 11-05-2016, 07:18 PM
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