Tone King's Sky King guts

[Gaz]

http://www.proguitar.eu/ProGuitar.eu/Sky_King.html#10

Talk amongst yourselves....

[sliberty]

Interesting, bizarre, never saw those triangular terminal strip thingies before.

[cbass]

Looks like it would be a nightmare to repair

[Reeltarded]

Studio has an imperial. Great amp. OMG are 6v6s supposed to do that? Poor things. Glass can sweat.

It's interesting but not enough to mess with.

[tictac]

Interesting.... if those triangular component blocks are removable you'd have modular construction. You could make a batch of modules and slap em in wherever you want...

Once you troubleshoot the bad module (usually power supply related) repairs would be a breeze....

Gut shots are not very informative though

Had an Imperial opened up years ago... I wanted to know what the mid-range circuit was all about but couldn't trace the circuit... nice construction but all double-sided board stuff...

They were using paralleled 220k metal-film plate resistors for the plate loads. I ask the designer (can remember his name) why and he said it was because they had lots of 220k metal-film resistors!

Have never seen a schematic for any ToneKing amps but it would be nice...

TT

[Structo]

Never seen anything like that.
Looks kind of tight on those triangle thingies.

[Gaz]

Interesting.... if those triangular component blocks are removable you'd have modular construction. You could make a batch of modules and slap em in wherever you want...

Once you troubleshoot the bad module (usually power supply related) repairs would be a breeze....

Gut shots are not very informative though

Had an Imperial opened up years ago... I wanted to know what the mid-range circuit was all about but couldn't trace the circuit... nice construction but all double-sided board stuff...

They were using paralleled 220k metal-film plate resistors for the plate loads. I ask the designer (can remember his name) why and he said it was because they had lots of 220k metal-film resistors!

Have never seen a schematic for any ToneKing amps but it would be nice...

TT

I am dying to know how that "Mid-Bite" circuit works. I played a Metropolitan once and it worked really well. Maybe the mad scientist Miles will crack his open

I was really impressed by the innovative layout in the Sky King, but yeah don't know about serviceability. I have a feeling the designer didn't overlook it.

[beasleybodyshop]

Its nice to see some unique construction ideas going on in there. No matter how often you hash it out, someone has a new trick up their sleeve.

[TUBEDUDE]

be nice to get a look at his "phase 4" power soak / scaling / whatever circuitry.