Hi all,

I just received my TMB EF86 kit and I have a couple of questions.

Is it advisable to use the diodes + cap on the rectifier tube? What does it do? The pictures don't show them on there so I am a little confused about it.

Also, with the shielded wire to V0 is it best to attach the 68k resistors at the input socket end or have them split at a tag board attached to the tube socket? Also I am assuming these get wired to the "main wire" of the shielded cable and the ground (green in the layout) is the braided part?

Thats it for now, I would apprectiate any help. I'm sure there will be other questions later but thats really the only things I have questions about at the moment.

Thanks,

Martin.

Thanks for the info. Makes sense really.

I'll update this if I run into any more queries!

Thanks, I put em in

Ok another possibly stupid question. I already hooked up al the heater wires and was just about to wire up the power switch/lamp etc. I realised that the lamp is 6v and should be connected to the heaters.

What is the appropriate way to hook this up? Should I desolder the connections from the PT to pins 4/5 of V5 and solder them to each of the connections on the lamp and then from the lamp back to pins 4/5 of V5? Or should I just run wire from pins 4/5 of V5 back to the lamp connections?

I guess the first way uses less wire and is therefore less messy?

Also something else I noticed. I don't have an Earth tap coming off the power transformer. A black wire with a 0 printed is the last wire which I am guessing goes to the neutral on the mains socket. I don't have any wire after that to earth like it shows on the layout. The transformer is printed with 17 Jan 2011 so maybe this is a new design that earths itself?