Thanks for your video. It was very helpful! I'm new to tube testers. I recently purchased a TC-2 and from the outside looks to be in excellent condition. I opened it up for inspection before plugging it in as you strongly suggested. It doesn't have any smoke or burnt areas that I can find and all connections but one looked correct. But a prior owner had deliberately kept one of the two wires running between the Filament Knob to the Set Line knob components disconnected (wrapped in electrical tape). Do you have any suggestions as to why they may have done this? The wire looks to be a great condition.
Thank you for the video, it helps me a lot. I just picked up a Heathkit TC-2 . Can you please help me to find out the parameters for the neon bulb as my one came without it. Thank you in advance.
Thanks for the video...just pick one of these up and seems to work just fine.....but I wanted it so I could check 4 pin tubes like the CX-345....but I can't seem to find it on the rolling index.....any ideas? Thanks much, Mike
@@AERVBlog No doubt. Love Heathkit. The builder of this tester would have gone much, much farther if he had practiced soldering and pre-forming each wire a bit more. I studied assembler language and digital logic (digital algebra, K maps, etc.) with the Hero (2?) robot and the digital trainer w integrated breadboard. (I wonder the percentage of success of the big color TVs they offered.) Their shortwave stuff is legendary. We lost a lot when Zenith killed them and kits devolved to easy to produce Velleman, RS spring clips, etc.
