littlejohn
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Most of the posts you read on Filament wiring talk about ways to do it, lead dress, but I just finished watching the Tube Depot video and there is not much mention of landing on the specific pin at the next tube or tubes down the line...does it matter. Fender used to wire all their heaters with two solid green twisted wire I suppose, and you'll see the same on new tweed builds now all the time by the kit builders that keep cropping up, which I assume is just random running tube to tube as I never see any left over sharpie marks or anything on the heaters where they meet the tubes? I can't see Fender worrying/taking time about this years back either when the ran the green pairs.
So, does it matter if say you leave pin 7 of a 6v6 tube and land on pin 2 at the next one?...or leave a pin 9 and go to pin 4/5 the tube?..with the other wire in the twist, or is it all just one big circuit of 3 volts per side? I mean did Fender worry about this years back before say the BF amps, but then why go to the different colored wires, Black/White, etc, for each heater wire in the twist?
Is there a phasing? scenario that comes into play regarding the hum cancellation, wondering if it even matters, just voltage going from tube to tube?
Maybe I've just been lucky as my few tweed builds are very quiet and I've never bothered to tone out/mark one of the green wires when I go to land it at the next pin/tube over?
So, does it matter if say you leave pin 7 of a 6v6 tube and land on pin 2 at the next one?...or leave a pin 9 and go to pin 4/5 the tube?..with the other wire in the twist, or is it all just one big circuit of 3 volts per side? I mean did Fender worry about this years back before say the BF amps, but then why go to the different colored wires, Black/White, etc, for each heater wire in the twist?
Is there a phasing? scenario that comes into play regarding the hum cancellation, wondering if it even matters, just voltage going from tube to tube?
Maybe I've just been lucky as my few tweed builds are very quiet and I've never bothered to tone out/mark one of the green wires when I go to land it at the next pin/tube over?