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- From: cmh@eng.cam.ac.uk (C.M. Hicks)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: BROKEN TUBE AMP
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.123115.24092@eng.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 12:31:15 GMT
- References: <kkv1+xl@rpi.edu> <sehari.721897983@class1.iastate.edu>
- Sender: cmh@eng.cam.ac.uk (C.M. Hicks)
- Organization: cam.eng
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- sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari) writes:
-
- >In <kkv1+xl@rpi.edu> nasiom@vccnw10.its.rpi.edu (Milton Peter Nasiopoulos) writes:
-
- >Q. How to check specker impedance.
- >A. Use a signal generator, to generate a 1KHz signal put the speaker and
- > a one ohm resistance in series, and connect the speaker-resistance
- > combinations to the signal generator. Measure, the voltage across the
- > speacker and the one ohm resistor. Now you can calculate the speaker's
- > resistance at 1KHz. Also check the DC resistance of the speaker with
- > ohm-metar. Your future speackers should have the same impedances.
- >Q. What could have gone wrong?
- >A. The output transformer that connects the speakers to Amp. might have
- > shorted itself. If so, it should be changed. Look at the resistors
- > see if you can find burning sign on those. See if the Amp burns the
- > fuse without speakers? Also, tube Amp are not supposed to run with
- > Sq. waves or very high frequencies.
-
- >Good luck, let me know if you had more problems.
-
- > With highest regards,
- > Babak Sehari.
-
- If the amp is old, it may also be worth changing all the electrolytic
- capacitors as a matter of course, since old electrolytics often go leaky.
-
- Christopher Hicks (cmh@uk.ac.cam.eng)
-