The ART-13 plate current meter circuit requires a meter "shunt" to
be installed in your power supply and the voltage taken from this
shunt is used to drive the meter. Usual this is a resistor around
12 to 15 ohms.
When constructing this "shunt" try using two or more resistors in
parallel and avoid just using a single resistor. By using a pair of
resistors if one fails you will still have a DC return to chassis
ground and your meter in this case will not be accurate but the
power supply will be safe and still function. BTW the meter scale is
not very accurate anyway in the plate current function. Full scale
is around 300 ma.
Z
