[jcassity]

now you can see i went from what would be considred a good original replacement choice by the "numbers" but in practice it failed.
my blue 300 ohm was porcelain design.
my green 500 ohm is porcelain and hollow in design with my fabricated heat sync & inserted copper tubuing in the center.
I believe my 500ohm solution is probably 5 times larger in size and should suit the application but it does not.
I suspect that :
A- i still have a problem somewhere like someone said earlier or.....
B- the circuit is talking to me, telling me i need to actually be somwhere in the 120w range.