• WARNING: Tube/Valve amplifiers use potentially LETHAL HIGH VOLTAGES.
    Building, troubleshooting and testing of these amplifiers should only be
    performed by someone who is thoroughly familiar with
    the safety precautions around high voltages.

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Câlisse.

One of the cheap Chinese KT88 seems to have snuffed it. It was only 110c when the others were 180c...

Now there is a lonely 6550 in it's place.

It works though so J'men câlisse!
 

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Is there caps on output?

Thanks @azazello ! :)

That said, due to extreme compacity (275 x 175 x 65mm for one chassis), there's a 3-speed fan cooling at the back, using a chimney effect around the 6080 :

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Fortunately, the 1st speed is enough to maintain the chassis cold and limit the heat around the 6080 at a reasonable value... :cool:

The power output is 10WRMS on 16R, the onset of clipping being at 13-14WRMS. The bandwith is less than 1Hz to 250KHz. THD is circa 1.5 to 2% H2 at 10W.

A+!
 
Very nice amp congrats, I have a question, what would be the outcome of a failure on one tube to the speaker ? ...all the best

Thanks @kissabout2002 !:)

Nearly nothing on a true OTL SEPP circuit - and by the way nothing dangerous for a speaker : at worse of the worse, 0.5 to 1VDC offset voltage, that can be easily identified. Remember that 1WRMS on 8R represents 2.83V...

A+!