No I installed an incorrect R value for R5... .13E blue ohmite looks just like 100R blue ohmite..until you read the fine print. That explains why this channel has never worked...I hope.
Wrongly binned parts happen, always measure first. There's no way the amp could have worked with 0.13R in there.
Be sure to replace R1 also. The R7 will be fine, since it was protected by a short across it.
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...of course the above should be mV...not ma....
Well....both channels have a fair bit of hum...
On the bench I'm not seeing it with the scope cranked all the way up..but downstairs in the system it's obvious.
I'm measuring 4 ohms from the common ground point on the boards where the PS, RCA and speaker grounds are all connected together ........ to the chassis ground stud.....is this typical or too much R?
I tried clip leads from the PCB ground to the stud..speaker -ve to the stud and RCA -ve to the stud..no change. RCA's are insulated from the chassis..with -ve grounded at the PCB.
I have twisted pair wires running from RCA's to the PCBs...no coax...
any suggestions?
Anthem Pre-1 tube preamp....no hum with other power amps....
Sounds very much like 60 Hz hum...
You likely need a loop breaking 10R resistor from each input RCA ground to the the audio ground,
in place of the wires that serve that function now. These resistors are often necessary, depending
on exactly how the components are built.
Then it may be inductive hum pickup from the internal components or wiring.
Does it still hum with shorting plugs in the RCAs? Can you post photos of the layout?
That's what I'm thinking too......still hums when shorting inputs....
Here are some pics....the little stacked PCB assembly and SSR are to support use of a Fancy Bulgin momentary switch. This chassis was used for years as an F4 without issues..
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ok..unsoldered the RCA inputs at the PCBs....
...left the RCA grounds connected.....
On the good channel, it's quiet regardless of whether I touch the RCA input wire to the pad on the board or not.
On the noisy channel, it looks just like the quiet channel with the wire diconnected..when I touch that wire to the pad on the PCB it looks really noisy.
When it was an F4 I had coax for the inputs..I'll replace the twisted pair with a coax on the noisy channel.
...left the RCA grounds connected.....
On the good channel, it's quiet regardless of whether I touch the RCA input wire to the pad on the board or not.
On the noisy channel, it looks just like the quiet channel with the wire diconnected..when I touch that wire to the pad on the PCB it looks really noisy.
When it was an F4 I had coax for the inputs..I'll replace the twisted pair with a coax on the noisy channel.
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