Last Of The Paramour (one) Mods

[adamct]

Fortunately, you don't have to come up with an analogy. Just use mine:

"Adding insult to injury, the Crack was force-fed a steady diet of meat and potatoes, until the Crack's ass swelled to enormous proportions --- there was no sign of its lithe and shapely body from earlier days. While a goose's liver will turn into foie gras, this Crack clearly had too much junk in the trunk...two cancerous blue tumors sprouted off the rear of the Crack. ... Just keeping those enormous butt-cheeks in place required the Crack to don a girdle before venturing into public..."

Here is the eBay link.

Best regards,
Adam

[Grainger49]

Bought!

BTW, I'm going to copy the analogy and send it to my wife.

[adamct]

Well, Grainger, it was nice knowing you. But there are probably less painful ways to commit Hara-kiri.

Doc, I think you can close Grainger's Corner now.

[Alonzo]

Ha, or he will use his current surplus of money on some pressure tested carbon...

Grainger, at last count there are 17 caps under the hood of my 45 amp.  I've got Blumenstien cases so no outboards or girdles allowed.   

[adamct]

"I've got Blumenstien cases so no outboards or girdles allowed."

LOL...too funny!

[Grainger49]

The caps arrived a few minutes ago.  Maybe I should have read the dimensions?

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Only one cap will go in each Paramour.  But there is no room under the hood.  These are the largest caps I have for the Paramours.  I'm going to have to figure something out.  Even if I drill a BIG hole in the back I'll need something to mount and support the caps.  They would tip the Paramours backward without something under them.

[Alonzo]

Wow, those are big.  Glad I didn't take the bait and get them, imagine me shoving them in here...

[Grainger49]

Alonzo,

That is full of caps.  Is it the Paramour II footprint?  The Paramour (one) is the size of a FP 2 or Seduction.  So I already have it full with 10uF Obbligato film/oil Parafeed caps (with KK Teflon 0.1uF@600V bypass), film and oil power supply caps and KK Teflon 0.1uF@500V interstage caps.  The cathode bypass caps are the only ones that haven't been replaced.  This thread, one post, shows it:


Paramour Blivit  [dead link]

You guys know what a capacitor junkie I am but these have stunned me.  When Paula got home last night I showed her the caps they  are replacing, I have some in my stash, and then the replacements. 

She agreed, I would have to support under the caps to keep them from tipping the amps over. 

The voltage on it isn't too high so I will just use stranded wire to connect it to the cathode resistor and leave it behind the amp.

[Alonzo]

Grainger,
It's a Stereomour box, CLCRC with 100Uf/100Uf/70Uf for the power supply.  The last 100 is bypassed with the 10Uf Obbligato film/oils above the 70Uf's.  The parafeed caps are 10Uf Obbligato golds, the cathode bypasses are 350Uf Jensens, 15Uf Solen's across the 45's heater pins, 3.3 Uf Obbligatos on the grid chokes and a 0.1Uf on the PS input.  I think that's all of them, there may be some buried under stuff that I forgot. Way too much overkill in caps' but I had them so why not use them.
Let us know how those 200's sound.

[Grainger49]

If you got 'em smoke... No that isn't a good idea, USE them!

[Grainger49]

If you got 'em smoke... No that isn't a good idea, USE them!

[Paul Joppa]

Grainger, you have to get rid of the green! It's invisible quotes.

[Grainger49]

I hope that is better.  I edited this thread on break at work today.  I hadn't realized that I greened a quote.

It is ok for posts, isn't it?  It looks good on my two computers at home and at work.

[VoltSecond]

The caps arrived a few minutes ago.  Maybe I should have read the dimensions?

Only one cap will go in each Paramour.  But there is no room under the hood.  These are the largest caps I have for the Paramours.  I'm going to have to figure something out.  Even if I drill a BIG hole in the back I'll need something to mount and support the caps.  They would tip the Paramours backward without something under them.

Have you ever try a capacitance multiplier?  I've used them in low level applications, but I haven't tried them at power.

[Paul Joppa]

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Have you ever try a capacitance multiplier?  I've used them in low level applications, but I haven't tried them at power.

VS, it's way back at the beginning of this long thread, but the application is a bypass capacitor on the 2A3 cathode bias resistor. I can't see how a cap multiplier would work there. Unless you have something new? It wouldn't be the first time!