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10W Push Pull Tube Amp [updated with testing]

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Mads Barnkob
Wed Apr 02 2014, 10:29AM
Mads Barnkob Registered Member #1403 Joined: Tue Mar 18 2008, 06:05PM
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Heater wiring and layout of the amplifier looks good, seems many best practices are used to ensure low noise.

The grounded screen on the input signal cables should maybe be grounded on the bar too and not at the chassis to avoid making antennas far away from the ground bar. The copper of the screen is also connected through the bolt/nut and not directly to the aluminium chassis. Other than that, good star grounding :)

The design could properly need some upgrading to modern times, f.ex. get rid of all electrolytic capacitors that are not in the power supply.

These punches are all very tiny small things, because you already did a great job!
Good looking little amp and the glow pictures are always the best :)
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tobias
Thu Apr 03 2014, 12:55AM
tobias Registered Member #1956 Joined: Wed Feb 04 2009, 01:22PM
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Thanks guys!

Steve, did you notice any difference between +40 V and the cathode bias?

Mads, very good tip on the Screen cable! Very easy fix too, will do soon =)
What capacitor would you use to replace the electrolytics on the tubes? They are paralleled with Bias resistors.
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Steve Conner
Thu Apr 03 2014, 09:14AM
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tobias wrote ...

Steve, did you notice any difference between +40 V and the cathode bias?

Yes, a huge difference. The amp using +40V was a hi-fi amp and the one using cathode bias was a guitar amp. smile
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tobias
Thu Apr 03 2014, 10:42AM
tobias Registered Member #1956 Joined: Wed Feb 04 2009, 01:22PM
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Well 40V it is then. Will have a resistor divider instead of a songle bleed resistor for the big filter cap on B+ and reference from that.
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tobias
Fri Apr 18 2014, 10:36PM
tobias Registered Member #1956 Joined: Wed Feb 04 2009, 01:22PM
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First post updated with testing shots.
I did not want to mess around with resistors so I just referenced the heaters to 0 V.

The day I change it to 40 V I will test again to see if it improves something =)
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Mads Barnkob
Thu Jul 03 2014, 06:36AM
Mads Barnkob Registered Member #1403 Joined: Tue Mar 18 2008, 06:05PM
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tobias wrote ...

First post updated with testing shots.
I did not want to mess around with resistors so I just referenced the heaters to 0 V.

The day I change it to 40 V I will test again to see if it improves something =)

You should also do a frequency response test on your amplifier, if you look here: Link2

at my updates from 19th December 2013 and 4th January 2014, it is described how to do it with a oscilloscope.
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