"Where did you get those MJ15015 at that low price?
Are you sure they are not fake ?"
I bought 300pcs each of 15015/15016 for $1.23/$1.30 from the factory authorized distributor.
The current low demand on those part numbers has increased the price.
Are you sure they are not fake ?"
I bought 300pcs each of 15015/15016 for $1.23/$1.30 from the factory authorized distributor.
The current low demand on those part numbers has increased the price.
For sure, connections that look pretty when new, can fail later. Generally, anything that didn't have physical support, such as tying, glue or bolts, probably will come loose. Other than that, it is really hard to predict what may come loose after a number of years. After six years, I have had two things come loose. They were still shiny, pretty, clean, but not attached!!!People used to fresh builds and in general newish stuff won't see much of it...
Very interesting - thank you very much. Please let me know the year of release from the mentioned book so as the number of picture in post #69.This is from one of the books in your post #69.
Hope this helps
If I look in magazines from this year, I must actually find an early advertisement of the 2N3055.
Prof Kaneda 3055
Prof Kaneda in Japan is also a big fan of 3055, he has published many amplifiers
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Prof Kaneda in Japan is also a big fan of 3055, he has published many amplifiers
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the 209 is 10 W, outstanding Kits Kaneda
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Interesting circuits - thank you. The last is similar to this (maybe the predecessor):Prof Kaneda in Japan is also a big fan of 3055, he has published many amplifiers
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http://peufeu.free.fr/audio/schemas/Kaneda_Mosfet.jpg
more circuits with this topology from last URL (Message #199) are listed by number 1 (post #1) under
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/soli...better-audio-non-complements-audio-power.html
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More details I have found there:This is from one of the books in your post #69.
Hope this helps
http://www.introni.it/pdf/RCA Transistor Manual 1964.pdf
Vox Solid State amps - transistors
The Dynacord amplifier without global NFB and driver transformer and output transformer works with 2x TDA2030 for driving a very fat driver transformer "DCN 309272". This one drive a push pull darlington pair that consists of one 2N6487 and three parallel switched 40636 from RCA for each half (40636 = 2N3055 with higher value for Vceo).
Instead the six emitter resistors there are six primary windings of a big fat output transformer "DCN 330775". The detailled circuit you will get from Dynacord as PDF file. The circuit description is to find in the German Magazine "Funkschau" number 3 from the year 1984. page 41.
Here some URLs from this model and related other models probably with similar schematic:
http://www.ela-online-shop.de/files/DEM286.pdf
2 x DYNACORD DEM 286 Verstärker ENDSTUFE 200 WATT bei eBay.de: PA-Verstärker Endstufen (endet 02.06.10 12:29:30 MESZ)
http://www.ela-data.de/PDFs/DEM285.pdf
http://www.ela-data.de/PDFs/DEM289.pdf
http://www.ela-data.de/PDFs/DEM287_288.pdf
Basicly great similarity with the topology of
Susan Parker - Intro
After certainly modifications (especially after remove the frequency low/high pass limitations) this could be a ultimate sounded home hifi power amp. I like such designs, because it is easy to get a symmetric signal behaviour.
About the Telefunken model (ELA power amp) "V665" with 250W output power no pics and information online at this time (auctions from ebay unfortunately always deleted after 3 months).
in the German magazine Funkschau Number 8 from the year 1974 you will find a detailled circuit description from page 251 to 254 about this model.
BTW the term ELA is the German abbreviation for "Public Address" (PA)
and stands for Elektroakustik (electro acoustic)
But in New High German colloquial usage this terms no longer the same;
Ela means that the application was improved for voice transmissions without music, i. e. only spoken/lecture, while PA means that the application has been optimized for music live events on stage (music open air or indoor concerts).
Who have heard this amplifier?
concerning 2N3055 check out post #112-118 under
https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/sol...ary-ab-bipolar-amplifiers-12.html#post5378924
https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/sol...ary-ab-bipolar-amplifiers-12.html#post5378924
A lot of information has already been gathered here - thank you therefore.Who can post the first commercial advertisement (announcement) from formerly's brand RCA (from any electronic magazine published in the early sixties) concerning the 2N3055 and the first RCA application notes?
At which time was exactly launched the production?
But I am still looking for images of a genuine brochure and advertisements from old electronic magazines when RCA's 2N3055 was announced and released in the early 1960's.
Maybe in one of this magazines
HIGH FIDELITY - Consumer audio and music magazine
RADIO and BROADCAST HISTORY library with thousands of books and magazines
as well as in advertising letters that were sent by RCA to the consumer/professional electronic industry (home-audio) at the time.
Now I have found this datasheet - go to the attachment.Who can post the first commercial advertisement (announcement) from formerly's brand RCA (from any electronic magazine published in the early sixties) concerning the 2N3055 and the first RCA application notes?
At which time was exactly launched the production?
I note, that the German brand Siemens launched the same type under the type number "BD130" in the seventies - unfortunately I don't find original datasheet online:
BD130 Datasheet(PDF) - Comset Semiconductor
also of interest are this German website (for overview of all showed 2N3055 versions scroll down):
RCA 2N3055 (1973 / hometaxial)
The explanation of hometaxial vs. epitaxial process together with the associated images is very interesting - so I think.
This URLs are also of interest:
The RCA 2N3055 transistor
Watt's Up?: Early Power Transistor Evolution, Part 1, Germanium
Watt's Up?: Early Power Transistor Evolution, Part 2, Silicon
But I am still looking for the first commercial advertisements (announcement) so as brochures/flyers opf the (at those days in th early 60s brand new 2N3055) from RCA
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Hi,
A contact at Lambda had told me years ago that the original 2N3055 was developed by them specifically for power supply pass transistor use. The original ft was 19 KHz to avoid oscillation mounted away on a heat sink.
You might want to chase that down.
A contact at Lambda had told me years ago that the original 2N3055 was developed by them specifically for power supply pass transistor use. The original ft was 19 KHz to avoid oscillation mounted away on a heat sink.
You might want to chase that down.
@tiefbasseubertr - any luck finding that 2N3055 advert yet?
The first I saw was in the 70's, from a magazine, but I think, if I recall correctly, it was from someone's archive and the mag. may have been 1964-1965.
It advertised the 2N3053, 2N3054 and 2N3055 as a "new range of power transistors" from RCA.
I have tried unsuccessfully to locate the image of the three devices, which showed the TO-5, TO-66 and TO-3 cans.
I contacted one of the magazines which it may have been in, but they only had hard copies (not digital back then). I did not have time, at the time, to take up their offer of browsing through them and don't know if they are even still going.
The first I saw was in the 70's, from a magazine, but I think, if I recall correctly, it was from someone's archive and the mag. may have been 1964-1965.
It advertised the 2N3053, 2N3054 and 2N3055 as a "new range of power transistors" from RCA.
I have tried unsuccessfully to locate the image of the three devices, which showed the TO-5, TO-66 and TO-3 cans.
I contacted one of the magazines which it may have been in, but they only had hard copies (not digital back then). I did not have time, at the time, to take up their offer of browsing through them and don't know if they are even still going.
Very interesting. 2N3055 single ended output stage for a preamp ?Nobody mentioned the classic Neve pre amps, class A with a 2N3055 in it, still produced nowadays.....
Willem
If yes, probably similar sonic character than "ZEN"power amp versions from Nelson Pass.
Are there schematics ?
Probably the first datasheets was published 1964 in this data book from RCA:@tiefbasseubertr - any luck finding that 2N3055 advert yet?
The first I saw was in the 70's, from a magazine, but I think, if I recall correctly, it was from someone's archive and the mag. may have been 1964-1965.
It advertised the 2N3053, 2N3054 and 2N3055 as a "new range of power transistors" from RCA.
I have tried unsuccessfully to locate the image of the three devices, which showed the TO-5, TO-66 and TO-3 cans.
I contacted one of the magazines which it may have been in, but they only had hard copies (not digital back then). I did not have time, at the time, to take up their offer of browsing through them and don't know if they are even still going.
http://www.introni.it/pdf/RCA Transistor Manual 1964.pdf
I suspect that announcements, advertisements and brochures about this product with its special features were to be found shortly beforehand in a large-scale advertising campaign in various magazines for industrial electronics from those days.
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If it’s in a preamp it’s probably the voltage regulator - what the 2N3055 was originally DESIGNED for.
No, it's the main amplifying transitor in this design, together with a lot of matched BC 184's.
Powersupply is seperate, 24 V DC.
Willem.
Powersupply is seperate, 24 V DC.
Willem.
Very interesting. 2N3055 single ended output stage for a preamp ?
If yes, probably similar sonic character than "ZEN"power amp versions from Nelson Pass.
Are there schematics ?
Find attached the basic schematics for this Neve pre amp.
Probably the first datasheets was published 1964 in this data book from RCA:
http://www.introni.it/pdf/RCA Transistor Manual 1964.pdf
I suspect that announcements, advertisements and brochures about this product with its special features were to be found shortly beforehand in a large-scale advertising campaign in various magazines for industrial electronics from those days.
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supplement to this postVery interesting amp - thank you for this advice and especially the schematic.
to find more such amp models (and not such with MJ2955/2N3055 in use by output stage) was the reason for starting this thread
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James Bongiorno Designs
Introducing the X-GainClone
CBA - Claus Bücher Audio
where you will find more informations
additional URLs to this circuit topology:
Comments on unusual bridge amp?
* AllegroSound * Hadley 601 Stereo Tube Amp *
ampzilla2000
Unfortunately I don't find a photo with a front view of this amplifier (similar like tube based model "601"?).
Because this power silicon transistor was introduced by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) already in the early 1960s, there must exist several of additional models from the early sixties. Such brand/models I like to know all
https://www.psaudio.com/copper/article/hadley-labs/
https://www.canuckaudiomart.com/det...-amp-refurbished-and-upgraded/images/1450627/
https://www.ukaudiomart.com/details/649464082-hadley-622-power-amp/images/2002687/
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