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Offline Paul Birkeland

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Reply #15 on: January 31, 2025, 04:39:29 AM
Your 6922 does not appear to be conducting, is it glowing?

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Reply #16 on: January 31, 2025, 05:11:26 AM
Yes sir




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Reply #17 on: January 31, 2025, 05:30:16 AM
I'd try a different 6922 first, just to rule that out.

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Reply #18 on: January 31, 2025, 06:16:32 AM
Will do. All mine have some hours on them. They were in an older preamp.

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Reply #19 on: January 31, 2025, 06:28:21 AM
Alright I have plugged severial 6922s and their values are all the same values w/in a poin or two of the last # I posted.



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Reply #20 on: January 31, 2025, 06:34:03 AM
i guess i should add i can't see the ef86 glow..... the other two easy in a room full of daylight.



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Reply #21 on: January 31, 2025, 08:35:16 AM
After some reading I see the EF86 really does tot glow or get real  warm. Knowing is 1/2 the battle.

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Reply #22 on: January 31, 2025, 01:22:00 PM
Any help?  Standing by......................



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Reply #23 on: January 31, 2025, 02:50:39 PM
Not having an Eros, I can only suggest do you have 6.3 v on pins 4 and 5 with the tube plugged in? if not remove the tube and then check pin 4 and 5 and if you have 6.3b v without the  tube plugged in then perhaps you might have a bad solder joint/ joints or a broken wire. Just one old mans opinion.

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Reply #24 on: February 01, 2025, 05:41:49 AM
I would also be extra, extra sure that the center legs of the MJE350 transistors are well soldered.  They connect to the metal tab on the transistor itself, so they take some extra heat to solder properly.

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Reply #25 on: February 01, 2025, 02:14:01 PM
No joy same values. time for a cock tail!

thank you,

b~



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Reply #26 on: February 01, 2025, 03:18:08 PM
My Hakko  936 and my  907. Cardas  quad core can get to  896  F. I have no issued heating the booard and componet. The solider joints are bright silver. I gave the center pins my best on the transistors on 2 boards now. Is there a way to test thoes in circuit. I am still in the fight.

much onliged.

b~



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Reply #27 on: February 01, 2025, 07:47:02 PM
When I receive Eros 2 kits with problems like this, it is almost always a solder issue on the front PC board, and sometimes the 6922 will be taken out in the process, and sometimes the 2N2222 transistors give up depending on what wasn't soldered.  You can check transistors for shorts by setting your meter to beep for continuity and checking each pair of transistor legs for shorts. 

Seeing 233V at IB on the front C4S board tells me that there's still an issue with the regulator board above the 12AU7 that needs to be dealt with. 

The voltages you posted show that one half of the 6922 is not conducting (or being allowed to conduct), which could be a problem with the plate stopper resistors (they go to pins C1 and C6), a short on the C socket, a bad solder joint on the MJE350 feeding that half of the 6922, or possibly a shorted transistor that isn't allowing the current to be regulated (or a solder bridge on the bottom of the front C4S board will also do this).

Paul "PB" Birkeland

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Reply #28 on: February 02, 2025, 04:27:24 AM
Thank you very much. I hve new hope!

b~



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Reply #29 on: February 02, 2025, 01:10:43 PM
I relinquish it to you Paul. I will speak with Queen E tomorrow. I am beyond condlence.

Kind regards,

b~