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What Tube tester would be best to buy
Ron Ramirez
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11-13-2022, 07:54 PM
Personally, I think the tube tester which offers the best bang for the buck is the Heathkit TT-1, with its optional TT-1-A adapter. It is a dynamic mutual conductance tester, and is sometimes overlooked by those who want the Hickok testers.

I picked mine up at an auction of an old radio-TV repair shop in western Kentucky back in the 1980s. In more recent years, I fully recapped it, found the calibration instructions online, and calibrated it.

I consider it to be the best two dollars I ever spent. Icon_biggrin
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