On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
  Ah, TV sets over here rarely had power
transformers at all... Every valved
 monochrome TV Iv'e worked on... had a 300mA series string of valve heaters
 and got the B+ line by half-wave rectifying the mains. 
 Sure, but your mains were twice the voltage of our mains. 
I am suprised that voltage doubler PSUs (2 diodes, 2 capacitors) weren't
used in the States.
-tony