hahahaha
Well, its not so much that the tubes are expensive, but the transformers would kill!
Unless you ran 400 6080's off the line.. no power transformer, no output transformers, not safe, and it would need a small power station to run it.
Well, its not so much that the tubes are expensive, but the transformers would kill!
Unless you ran 400 6080's off the line.. no power transformer, no output transformers, not safe, and it would need a small power station to run it.
You would have to use some monster transmitting triodes in push pull, with voltages of 2000V plus at 10s of amps, the amp would be massive, require forced cooling and consume insane amounts of electricity. You would also need extremely expensive custom wound output transformers if you went for that amount of wattage.
That said you could have a look at: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1965/pp3cx300.html
for a laugh 🙂
Seriously, don't do it, the voltages are too high and you cuold kill yourself very easily...
That said you could have a look at: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1965/pp3cx300.html
for a laugh 🙂
Seriously, don't do it, the voltages are too high and you cuold kill yourself very easily...
To put things in perspective, Western Electric used a push pull pair of 279As (these things consume 210W each in the filament alone) in class B2 (essentially the most efficient class of operation) to get a mere 2,200W output.
Oh, and a 3,000V HT.
Please don't build something like that, it will not only likely make you very poor, but can easily make you very dead too.
Oh, and a 3,000V HT.
Please don't build something like that, it will not only likely make you very poor, but can easily make you very dead too.
well i could scrummage 800w transformers on the street, and if i put a metal case over it and use a circut breaker i figure it couldnt explode that bad... 
is it still possible though?
is it still possible though?
no...unless you have 30 years experience in high power radio transmitters and are willing to spend 30 years worth of pension on it.
A funny and entertaining thread. It does show how the current toward high power can get ridiculous. Back in "Ye Olde Days", you could drive Altec A7's pretty loud with as little as a 3 watt amp. Maybe there's a lesson here?.....
Kent Smith said:
im not looking for a 3 watt amp, i need it to power 300w speakers, and i thought it'd be nice to build my own tube. but thanks for reading!
inhale said:well i could scrummage 800w transformers on the street, and if i put a metal case over it and use a circut breaker i figure it couldnt explode that bad...
You're headin' for a Darwin Award.
inhale said:
As in Charles Darwin, the person who proposed the theory of evolution.
The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways.
heres a tip.
1. buy efficent speakers
2. throw 300000 watt amp in the bathtub next time you bathe 😉
1. buy efficent speakers
2. throw 300000 watt amp in the bathtub next time you bathe 😉
Charles Darwin knew finches, not tubes
You don't have to receive the Darwin Award posthumously.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Awards
Of course in some American States, the "teaching" of creationism may preclude the introduction of Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
Off Topic: One of my favorite interludes on a bicycle tour of Nova Scotia, was to stop at a Canadian site for world shortwave broadcasting. Inside there was the remains of an RCA booth, like a museum piece, with the biggest tubes I have ever seen! I wonder what amount of power was going through that baby! The door to the room was amazing with art deco style and the little porthole window was in blue glass with the RCA logo etched in white. For security reasons, the guard did not allow me to take a photo.
You don't have to receive the Darwin Award posthumously.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Awards
Of course in some American States, the "teaching" of creationism may preclude the introduction of Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
Off Topic: One of my favorite interludes on a bicycle tour of Nova Scotia, was to stop at a Canadian site for world shortwave broadcasting. Inside there was the remains of an RCA booth, like a museum piece, with the biggest tubes I have ever seen! I wonder what amount of power was going through that baby! The door to the room was amazing with art deco style and the little porthole window was in blue glass with the RCA logo etched in white. For security reasons, the guard did not allow me to take a photo.
so what are you driving that needs 2400w? I can get 138Db out of an 8" with 500w, are you trying to blow your eardrums up or are your speakers 2Db @ 2.83v /1m?
4 300W speakers, so if i run it at double, and keep it at half volume it would tend to be much clearer without any distortion. unless i been all wrong and tube wattage is different from regular amplifer wattage.
Actually, there is a difference.... no change in Watt definition, just in how the amp behaves when overdriven. Transistor amp clips hard and sounds really bad. Tube amp will increase harmonics while putting out more power.... until transformer saturates. You may find 100 watt tube amp just as good as 200 or 300 watt transistor amp, plus more dynamic and sweet sounding.
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