Black: Grounds, grounded elements, and returns Brown: Heaters, or filaments, off ground Red: Power supply B+ Orange: Screen grids Yellow: Cathodes Green: Control grids, diode plates Blue: Plates Violet: Power supply minus leads Gray: Ac power line leads White: Bias supply The advantages of standard color coding allow you to quickly trace circuits for troubleshooting - even one's that you made yourself if you memory is as bad as mine. You heater is coded for B+ and cathodes which would initially confuse the dickens out of me.