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"excellent elimination fella. a small choke around 50mA/4H would be fine.  lots of 50…"

eric gittins replied May 21, 2013 to trying to hack an old valve radio, into a guitar amp,

108 Apr 29, 2014
Reply by GARAGE HERMIT

"what kind of amp? we talking transistor or valve?"

eric gittins replied May 13, 2013 to Dangers in fiddling about with amp guts.

3 May 14, 2013
Reply by Damon

"is the hum 50hz or 100hz?  50 is filament, 100 is from rectified B+ supply. i imagin…"

eric gittins replied May 13, 2013 to trying to hack an old valve radio, into a guitar amp,

108 Apr 29, 2014
Reply by GARAGE HERMIT

"yes, still run the the two 100 ohm resistors from either side of the 6.3v winding, a…"

eric gittins replied May 12, 2013 to trying to hack an old valve radio, into a guitar amp,

108 Apr 29, 2014
Reply by GARAGE HERMIT

"wow, all change. your signal ground shouldn't earth to the chassis at the input jack…"

eric gittins replied May 7, 2013 to trying to hack an old valve radio, into a guitar amp,

108 Apr 29, 2014
Reply by GARAGE HERMIT

"the blackface viboverb is famous as the stevie ray vaughn amp.  it came first w…"

eric gittins replied Apr 30, 2013 to trying to hack an old valve radio, into a guitar amp,

108 Apr 29, 2014
Reply by GARAGE HERMIT

"that amp looks really good fella, well done. hum your earth bus may well be giving y…"

eric gittins replied Apr 29, 2013 to trying to hack an old valve radio, into a guitar amp,

108 Apr 29, 2014
Reply by GARAGE HERMIT

"one leg to earth is how its generally done. might not matter in your amp as it doesn…"

eric gittins replied Apr 18, 2013 to trying to hack an old valve radio, into a guitar amp,

108 Apr 29, 2014
Reply by GARAGE HERMIT

"hey, that's great news fella. the resistor from input to earth, shared between jacks…"

eric gittins replied Apr 16, 2013 to trying to hack an old valve radio, into a guitar amp,

108 Apr 29, 2014
Reply by GARAGE HERMIT

"there should be no DC voltage on the speaker side of the OT at all. the power supply…"

eric gittins replied Apr 3, 2013 to trying to hack an old valve radio, into a guitar amp,

108 Apr 29, 2014
Reply by GARAGE HERMIT

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