Quickie on the fritz-- help needed

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Offline denti alligator

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on: June 28, 2017, 12:03:45 PM
Quickie 1.0 with PJCCS has been running fine for many months. Today it stopped. Voltages  for left channel are off. I'm not getting anything at A7, for instance. Shouldn't I be getting some voltage from the D battery? Could it be that the battery holder is not working? (It looks fine.)

1  0
2  0
3  0
4  1.864
5  0

6  18.93
7  28.42
9  9.48

A1  0
A2  37.8
A3  0
A4  37.7
A5  0
A6  37.8
A7  0

B1  3.34
B2  26.08
B3  0
B4  26.25
B5  1.865
B6  26.20
B7  3.34

PC board
A1  37.9
OA  29.19

B1  37.9
OB  37.6

I've reflowed most of the joints, swapped out tubes, and changed batteries.


- Sam

Rega P3-24 (w/AT 150MLX) w/Groovetracer upgrades / Eros II / FLAC >J.River >DSD256 >Gustard X20 / Moreplay > Stereomour II / Klipsch Forte II w/Crites upgrades / C4S S.E.X. 2.0 +Nickel MQ Iron / Speedball Crack / Sennheiser HD600 w/Cardas cable


Offline Paul Birkeland

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Reply #1 on: July 02, 2017, 09:30:31 AM
Measure the DC voltage on the offending channel between pins 1 and 7 on the tube socket itself.  That will tell you if the 1.5V D cells are heating that tube.

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Reply #2 on: July 02, 2017, 04:15:05 PM
I went to do these measurements and everything seems to be working fine. Very, very strange.

- Sam

Rega P3-24 (w/AT 150MLX) w/Groovetracer upgrades / Eros II / FLAC >J.River >DSD256 >Gustard X20 / Moreplay > Stereomour II / Klipsch Forte II w/Crites upgrades / C4S S.E.X. 2.0 +Nickel MQ Iron / Speedball Crack / Sennheiser HD600 w/Cardas cable


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Reply #3 on: July 07, 2017, 09:30:38 AM
You likely moved an intermittent connection that needs a little more heat from the old soldering iron.

-PB

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