I have two amplifiers i am concerned with in this post... one is an eico ST70, the other is an old motorola amp.
I would like to run both with less tubes, as stereo power amplifiers only. I'm wondering if removing tubes is going to create too much of a rise in voltage, and throw things out of whack?
The ST70 would be lacking only 4 preamp tubes in this configuration. I don't imagine that would be a huge problem.
The motorola however, is a 3 channel 6bm8 amp which has a total of 4 output tubes, the bass is a PP mono setup, the R/L channels are single ended. I want to use this amp with only the pair of single ended tubes. I think that might be more significant.
Any ideas? Should I worry about adding resistors?
Aaron
I would like to run both with less tubes, as stereo power amplifiers only. I'm wondering if removing tubes is going to create too much of a rise in voltage, and throw things out of whack?
The ST70 would be lacking only 4 preamp tubes in this configuration. I don't imagine that would be a huge problem.
The motorola however, is a 3 channel 6bm8 amp which has a total of 4 output tubes, the bass is a PP mono setup, the R/L channels are single ended. I want to use this amp with only the pair of single ended tubes. I think that might be more significant.
Any ideas? Should I worry about adding resistors?
Aaron
The motorola however, is a 3 channel 6bm8 amp which has a total of 4 output tubes, the bass is a PP mono setup, the R/L channels are single ended. I want to use this amp with only the pair of single ended tubes. I think that might be more significant.
If you want to keep close to the original design (= not using it as a parts donor) I would suggest to measure B+ voltages and current draw for the SE output stages, then redesign the power supply (reusing the original trafo and possibly chokes / caps) using Duncan's PSUDII simulator (can be downloaded on duncanamps.com) which is an excellent tool + easy to work with.
edit: the single-ended opts will probably lack low-end bandwith if they were designed to work together with a dedicated low-end PP amp.
good luck!
Simon
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