Thanks Enzo! Took your advice(think cheap) and in the meantime I found a schematic that uses the 35Z5GT and a 50C5. Since we have 220 volts here I'll use a 2:1 step-down transformer(should also help someone, namely me, from being fried). Site address: http://webpages.charter.net/dawill/tmoranwms/
I would be very, very careful about building an amp without a mains transformer. The outside of your cd player, or indeed the strings on your guitar, could be at mains voltage.
I would throw this tube away and use a proper mains transformer, a GZ34, and some 6L6GCs or EL34s!
I would throw this tube away and use a proper mains transformer, a GZ34, and some 6L6GCs or EL34s!
Thanks for your warning SHiFTY but as I told Enzo I will be using a 2:1 stepdown xformer cuz our line voltage here is 220 volts. My main reason for using this tube is that I happened to come across it completely by chance and it got me excited(intellectually, not sexually) about building something with this technology. As an electronics technician it will be a learning curve after which I want to attempt to bulid a "serious" tube amp.
@Isaac Teller
I built a pair of SE monoblocks using 35W4's, 50C5's and 12DT8's quite a few years ago with 1 to 1 iso-xfrms. Sounded quite good amazingly and was fun to build. I had a lot of those tubes lying around at one time long ago. Aaahhh the good old days; sob!
Go for it!
Wayne
I built a pair of SE monoblocks using 35W4's, 50C5's and 12DT8's quite a few years ago with 1 to 1 iso-xfrms. Sounded quite good amazingly and was fun to build. I had a lot of those tubes lying around at one time long ago. Aaahhh the good old days; sob!
Go for it!
Wayne
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