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Originally Posted by bgadow
I've heard that in the prewar era Zenith has trouble with transformers being underrated; I wonder if that was still on their mind?
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Not sure, but I do know they had a bad reputation for failed field coils in the prewar radios, since the field coil was also the input choke for the power supply. Any load, such as a leaky filter, would overheat and open the field coil. Shoulda put a fuse!
Charles