lethocerus
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Grounding each of those grids makes the radio signal faint, if I turn up the volume I can hear the popping distinctly.so grounding the V3, V4, or V5 grid still has the pop? It should kill any radio signal since there wouldn't be anything coming in to the grid from the front end but not killing the popping is not what I was expecting.
Yes understoodGrid of V4 should just be whats at the plate of V3, so blocking whats coming out of V3 ought to stop it if V3 was the source. Ditto grid of V5, thats just what shows up at the plate of V4. Since it doesn't, that sort of points me somewhere else. Extra interesting that removing any tube stops it, but killing the signal coming in to the grid of any of the tubes does not
Normally I'd look for a lead dress issue, but none of the wiring in these sections has been disrupted save for the filter caps. Unfortunately I didn't listen to the unit before replacing them, there were several other issues so I tackled them all at once. I suppose I could compare the lead dress to the other 400 I have here...the extreme regularity of it definitely says some sort of oscillation problem like @dcgillespie said. I've had oscillating IF strips before, but grounding any of the IF amp tube grids would kill it.
squarely at the "I don't know" point here since this doesn't give results that seem logical to me.
But I'm eager for any other ideas at this point!
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