Sounds to me like you may have a power supply problem. Mine has 2300-2500
plate volts and I can drive it to 1425 max watts out with no problems. I
always monitor grid current to be sure it is never excessive. Yours is
probably doing all it can with that lowered plater voltage.
73, Dick W0EX.
ken cubilo wrote:
> i just fired up my mla2500 amp which i just picked up at a local
> hamfest.. the manual i
> got with it is very vague as too operating condx of the 8875 tubes with
> 35 to 40 watts of
> drive i get 600 to 700 watts output with the following condx plate
> voltage 1500v and current of .7 ma can anyone tell me the normal parms
> of this amp ie idling plate current,
> max plate current and grid current indications thanks in advance
> ken we8w
> kcubilo@freeway.net
>
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