Next up- I see audio in but don't see anything for audio out (speakers)..............
The terminal strip is nowhere to be found. This might end up in the hands of someone more capable of putting it to use.Below the ORANGE capacitor in your gut shot there are three wires coming in which is the OT secondary. Follow those; they should go to a terminal strip. Green is 8 ohms and black is ground.
Thought those might be a power source for something else. Thanks for all the help!There's the terminal strip and those flying leads are the speaker wires.
The utmost care and safety will be used when learning my new hobby, I have manage to remain unscathed from a previous hobby of drag racing motorcycles, and my current hobby of shooting competitions with fully automatic weaponsIf you're not sure about the electronics aspect of this thing, I wouldn't mess around with it. Tube amps have lethal voltages so unless you know what you are doing, let someone else work on it.
cademan thanks for taking the time to explain this, I really appreciate it.The bigger black transformer is the main power transformer. The smaller one with the brown paper wrap is the speaker output transformer. It only has two wires that connect to the speaker(s). Yellow & black. Solid state stuff does not use or have speaker (output) transformers with the exceptions of some solid state PA amplifiers.
The one side with the black & yellow wires is what's known as the secondary side of the transformer. The other side (wire colors unknown) are what's known as the primary side and these wires connect to the output tubes which are the 6V6GT's.
If you look at the picture Larry posted in post #5, it shows everything that yours has even the speaker connections..........and yup, yours does too!
Thanks for the clarification cademan.It's not a series string hot chassis so its not going to have any live mains on the chassis if something were to short out. The power transformer acts like an isolation transformer.
You don't really need to connect the speaker when powering up. Just don't have any input or have the volume turned up and it will be fine for the first few minutes of testing.
In my 40+ some years of doing this, I have never seen, heard, or tested a console tube amp that ever went into oscillations without the speaker connected. Might happen with more exotic more expensive tube amps, but not these cheaply built mass produced console amplifiers.
If green is 8ohms output and black is ground what is yellow? Another output? If so how many ohms?Below the ORANGE capacitor in your gut shot there are three wires coming in which is the OT secondary. Follow those; they should go to a terminal strip. Green is 8 ohms and black is ground.