So, here I was browsing this forum and thought a 6av6 is half a 12ax7 and I just happened to have an old chassis with 4 X 6av6, 2 X el84 and a 5Y3 recto....., why not throw together a spitfire.
Well, it fired up with a few issues (buzz with strat s/c, but working on that), had a hum but moving the el84 cathode ground to the preamp ground point cured that, I found it was way bright, so in went a cut control (thanks to this forum). I only had 500K audio taper pots so in they went, except for the cut 250K audio taper.
With the 5Y3 in I am sitting at about 305vdc on the output tubes with 11vdc on the 150ohm / 22u ck. With a plugin ss rectifier built into an old tube base it sits at about 360vdc.....
I am taking this little sucker to practice tonight... should be
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fun.
Thanks for all the info, great forum.
Colin B
Halifax NS
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