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Old 09-26-2018, 09:10 PM
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While there is no question that Mercury vapor rectifier tubes look really cool when they are running, I mean probably nothing cooler, the Mercury plasma makes a huge amount of RFI and EMI that is very hard to filter out. It starts at low 100’s of kHz and goes up to 10 MHz.

Maybe it is euphonic?
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