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Old 07-25-2009, 11:08 PM
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1949 Motorola 9VT1
 
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Originally Posted by jeyurkon View Post
In searching for this particular ballast for the past couple of years all I had ever found were posts from others also looking for them, going back quite a few years.

I'm surprised that the guy still has 8 left. I bought two, one as a spare. It was difficult to resist buying more.

John
My two 17A485459 ballast tubes arrived today and now my 9VT1 lives again. These glass tubes are so much better. I bought two so I would have a spare. I was tempted to buy more as well but I thought of the many others who have been looking for these. I am thinking of making a resistor replacement, mounting it in the set with an octal plug and if ballast tubes ever go extinct I can just plug in my resistor network and keep the set going. I want to refinish the cabinet, replace the torn grill cloth and add retrace line suppression to my set. It works very well of an Insignia DTV converter.
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