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[AMPS] Question on reforming caps NCL2000

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Subject: [AMPS] Question on reforming caps NCL2000
From: measures@vc.net (Rich Measures)
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 98 18:44:33 -0800
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>
>On Fri, 11 Sep 98 13:23:18 -0800 Rich Measures <measures@vc.net> writes:
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>>>
>>>
>>>On Fri, 11 Sep 98 08:20:52 -0800 Rich Measures <measures@vc.net> 
>>writes:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>The designers rather obviously did not bother to read the RCA 
>>>>Transmitting Tube Manual.  In stock config., the amp. is potentially 
>>
>>>>an 
>>>>8122-screen-assassinator.
>>>
>>>
>>>No argument...what was designed was not what Mike Ferber ( National
>>>Marketing VP) forced on the market.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > If you are interested, I can mail you a copy 
>>>> of a schematic with needed changes.
>>>
>>>I tried them...they dont work. 
>>
>>You tried the RCA Transmitting Tube Manual recommended cathode 
>>feedback 
>>resistors and they don't work?
>
>
>That is correct....they do not work in the NCL2000's I tried and the amp
>goes wild on 10/15M. The problem can be traced to the marginal screen
>bypassing that is used, only 500pf per pin coupled with the 2W cathode
>resistor lead lengths. 

Are you saying that was with resistors supplied by us?    

>Those tests were done about 10 years ago.
>The amp can be made completely stable by using Johnson, Eimac, etc., 
>4CX250 screen bypass rings but those items are becoming very hard to
>find. If you note...RCA specifies those rings in their literature and the
>early NCL prototypes used them. Marketing nixed the idea as too
>expensive.

A mistake.  So is using a too-inductive resistor.  So is using too much 
lead length.  .So is not using at least one resistor per filament pin.  
-  


Rich...

R. L. Measures, 805-386-3734, AG6K, www.vcnet.com/measures  


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