• 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.

6V6 line preamp

iko

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Joined 2008
I don't think of it that way. There are hundreds of people who can benefit from what you're doing. All of your effort makes a good tutorial on how to run these tests. Not everybody is an expert and we all start somewhere. So, boring or not for me or Salas, it doesn't matter. We are a community. That's what makes this forum great, IMHO.
 
Thanks Iko. I'll continue boring you then:D

Actually I'm not sure I demand replys to everything. It helps to summarize what I'm doing, in the thinking/testing/developing process, writing it down. Its good to take the silly hat also sometimes. Not everybody dares to ask noob questions so maybe as you say, someone can benefit from reading it. Hope so.

And, as you say it. As a flash from a clear blue sky heres shiny new wiring (be gone, cracky ethernet TPs) (pic 1)

Some shielding to hopefully shut out some noice (pic 2)

The barge (pic 3)

New test rig (pic 4)

Dang what have we here? 5 mV/div (pic 5)

13,5 k dummies (not as dummie as me pic 6)

New scope first shot, 2 mV/div (pic 7)

Do I have a problem:scratch1:

PS. Agree, great forum. Long time since I donated, gonna do that tonight, thanks!
 

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Use one channel at a time because it triggers off of just one and noise is not periodic so to sync 2 channels on anything in particular. Looks just like measurement loop and DSO noise to me, and low at that, with no suspicious waveform or EMI spikes. It should be a pass if you are not having something up your sleeve of course.:D

P.S. Read the manual a couple of times is highly recommended, DSO has nice tricks and traps also.;)
 
The only hornblower here is me, the SSHVs are on. Here is second channel.

PS. I had my payment conversation with almighty today so I'm a lil piffsy as you might notice:) I always feel lil going HV when a lil piffsy. Shall we plug the circuit then?
 

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diyAudio Chief Moderator
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Super! I will.

So now. It took some time bcs theres a few moments:

  1. New super 1 guage cablong
  2. Peeled and shorted and test probes on
  3. The flybridge
  4. Filament power lifted to 36 VDC
  5. Chokes isolator handmade by yours truly
  6. Channel one
  7. Channel two
Iko? And I know I mixed up on pix, I wont redo it, maybe some double or something. Ask if youre puzzled.
 

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