A new source for cheap toroidal PTs?

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Re: A new source for cheap toroidal PTs?

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LeftyStrat wrote:
cbass wrote:Well I know that it is cheaper to manufacture toroidals that standard PT's.

So it might be possible
Yeah, but it seems every source I found charges a premium for high voltage ones typically used in tube amps. An equivalent Plitron costs more than $300.
I designed a few 20 years ago for Toroid Corp. They are still selling them although not very cheap !
http://www.toroid.com/standard_transfor ... s_tube.htm
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