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Comment by adammunich

6.3V is the standard voltage of a farm tractor battery --these vacuum tube heaters were designed to use them.

12.6V is two farm tractor batteries (one car battery), which is why our computer industry uses 12V for motherboards (12 volts - 0.6V reverse protection diode).

Early computer power supplies used voltage regulators that were designed for car radios, originally.

parent adammunich 3 years ago

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