12AX7 vs 12AU7 Plate Voltages.

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Re: 12AX7 vs 12AU7 Plate Voltages.

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Ha!

I added a 47pf cap across the PI plates and it helped a lot.

Then I decided I wanted to add adjustable global feedback ala the presence control.

It was late and after I had it wired up, flipped the switches and.....HOWL... :shock: :evil:

I couldn't work on it after that because the wife was in bed.

I haven't verified it yet but I am thinking that the two plate resistors of the PI are backwards, in other words the 82K is where the 100K is, and possible the OT wires are backwards, although I had flipped them before.

But, it's kind of fun having an amp to mess around with that I don't really care if it blows up, trying different things with it. :D
Tom

Don't let that smoke out!
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