century tek
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I will bet that this will cure it up for you when you get back to it.
Couldn’t stand it... had to go back out real quick to look. The resistor is there, I just need to fix the wiring...
I will bet that this will cure it up for you when you get back to it.
Yeah, I should have seen that but I like to focus on one area at a time. It's called troubleshooting.
YAY! Now tell us, how do you like it?
Yeeeeaaaaaaaaah boy!!!
If anything were to go wrong with it, it would have showed its ugly face within the first 5 minutes of operation. As long as there is no smoke or red plating of the output tubes, it is going to be just fine for you.
You can run it on your main system anytime you wish. You might have been thinking of something called "break in" but this amp and tubes have already been broken in a long time ago. You might think of "break in" with all new capacitors.
With the new coupling capacitors, you might notice little nuances after you have played it for a while. Especially if you compare it to a solid state amp. You will hear things with tubes that solid state has a hard time reproducing.
Play it for a while before you decide or want to do upgrades or mods.
Here's my AMP175. This is basically the same as the 185 but without the 7025 preamp tube. Yes, it is modded and hot rodded.
Power supply was ramped up a bit. 6V6GT tubes were swapped out for 6L6GC tubes. The output transformers were replaced with Knight KB-85 output transformers and is wired in ultra linear mode because those output transformers are ultra linear transformers.
Nat, you will enjoy yours so have fun with it.
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Wouldn’t hurt to check your voltages, but agree with run it after 40 minutes. I sent you a txt.
Edit: Not a bad idea to have a record of base line incase of future problems.
That’s great man. Glad it worked out!