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Old 15th February 2008, 11:22 AM   #1
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Default Turning on B+ without heaters with aikido

I just built an aikido pre and get this horribly distorted, cracking, fuzzy sound at the output. I forgot to hook up the heater supply and ran it for about a minute before I found the problem. Could this have caused a problems with the tubes.
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Old 15th February 2008, 11:37 AM   #2
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nope, tubes will be ok.
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Old 15th February 2008, 11:42 AM   #3
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darn. I was hoping for an easy fix here.
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