[Tube-Swap] Why 6.3V heater?

[yonglee@yonsei.ac.kr]

Many tubes use 6=2E3volt heater=2E=20
I wonder why 6=2E3V,  not 6V or 7V?
Would anybody explain this to me?
de HL1FB(WW6N)=0A=0A


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