Mysterious tektronix power supply

[tubesmuggler]

Anyone recognize this? I'm trying to find out more, specifically the tranny specs...would love to put this into a new amp if possible. The tranny is labeled: T-160 PB1




TIA

[astouffer]

Try searching the archives a bit. There was a thread where someone listed specs for Tektronix transformers.

[mwiebe]

It's a type 160 power supply. I've been using one to power an amp for the last 6-months. Nice supply. You can down load the specs off http://bama.sbc.edu/. Roughly you have a 300V unregulated tap, regulated 225V and 150V taps, regulated -170V tap and an unregulated 70V tap and 25amps of 6.3VAC available. You can probably get a bit more then 200ma out of the high-voltage taps.
Matt

[mwiebe]

Sorry about that I gave you the power supply tap specs, here are the windings for the 160A transformer.
Two 5VAC taps, one probaby 4amps, the other 2amps
One 6.3VAC 25 amps
One 520VCT/250ma
One 430VCT/150ma
Matt

[tubesmuggler]

Thanks a ton mwiebe! I'll check it out.


astouffer, I searched for days and came up with nothing so I finally photographed the sucker and got useful info in no time!

Thanks again.

[Richard984]

I despair of people thinking that it is OK to use venerable vintage equipment or worse, to strip venerable equipment, for mundane purposes such DIY tube audio, most of which is crummy at best. Just because you own something does not mean you can do what you like with it, that is a greedy attitude. Consider being a steward of what you "own".

[Alastair E]

Originally Posted by Richard984

I despair of people thinking that it is OK to use venerable vintage equipment or worse, to strip venerable equipment, for mundane purposes such DIY tube audio, most of which is crummy at best. Just because you own something does not mean you can do what you like with it, that is a greedy attitude. Consider being a steward of what you "own".

Hmm....

Thats a Daft attitude IMHO....

If summit like that old PSU came my way it would be scrapped for its parts.

If it was a complete machine, then it would be repaired and sold on if it was of no use to me, If it couldn't/too expensive to repair, it too would be scrapped for its goodies...

IF you didn't do this, you would probably end up with a load of useless old junk that gets scrapped complete when you're dead!
--Use it while you can, make the best out of it....

Not saying you should break up some machine thats complete and in good order, That would be a real shame, but broken/incomplete stuff is fair game

What you want guys to do??

Buy all new expensive stuff??

[aardvarkash10]

Originally Posted by Richard984

I despair of people thinking that it is OK to use venerable vintage equipment or worse, to strip venerable equipment, for mundane purposes such DIY tube audio, most of which is crummy at best. Just because you own something does not mean you can do what you like with it, that is a greedy attitude. Consider being a steward of what you "own".

Venerable? Mundane?

I suggest that since you feel so strongly on the matter you set up a business rescuing t5his venerable equipment, restoring it and onselling it to save it from the mundane.

Better yet, set up a museum so they can all sit, doing nothing. A chapel perhaps where you can venerate all you like.

Personally, I agree with Alastair. If an item is at the end of its useful life it is appropriate (in fact good economics and ecology) to reinvent it.

[jfitz57]

Cannibalize it and make it ROCK!

[Cassiel]

I despair of people thinking that it is OK to use venerable vintage equipment or worse, to strip venerable equipment, for mundane purposes such DIY tube audio,

One good thing about this monetary crisis we're going on is that people, instead of buying new iron, are recycling old junk (sorry, I meant venerable junk) to build crummy audio amps. No loss I see, junk going junk; the only difference is that this time there's a speaker to say: this junk is alive and kicking!