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Old 09-16-2015, 09:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Captainclock View Post
Please whatever you do, leave the original Electrostatic tweeter alone and don't try to replace it with a regular paper cone tweeter because you'll risk causing a fire because they aren't designed to withstand the 300+volts of plate current coming off of the 50C5 tube in that radio which is what powers the electrostatic tweeter, if anyting just replace it with a modern electrostatic ribbon tweeter then you'll be fine, but please for the name of all things holy don't put a paper cone tweeter in there!
If you drive the paper cone tweeter off the same place as the PAPER CONE WOOFER, with a series crossover cap it WILL BE perfectly SAFE, and I'm confident most here are smart enough to do it the way I just described.

I like the e-stats better, but if a paper cone is what you got to replace a bad e-stat with why not.
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