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Hey, I can't thank both you fellas near enough! I wired her up with a fixed bias and ram the screen grid through the center of the relay and now I can even run a 6L6 which is exactly what I wanted to be able to do switch back and forth between tubes for driver use, working perfectly
Not to mention his great aftermarket boards and products he puts out there for guys like me !!!! I am a big Tram fan and those BA boards he has are the tits ! I run those in every Tram D201 that I have ! The keying relay board is another great addition amongst others
I worked on it a bit more tonight, I guess the deal is that these older JB150 don't like a 6L6 tube as much probably due to that screen grid voltage always being present " I run a 6L6 in the JB150 that has a seeker meter all the time but it's a better setup" I installed a 8417 tube back in the...
I absolutely understand exactly what you are stating here Nomadradio and I may end up changing this box this way myself, as of right now the bias is backwards I think-25 on recieve and -35 on transmit and I actually have two boxes that are this way which was one reason I was getting confused, I...
Indeed the zener was at fault, I got the new ones in and installed them and bingo, I have better negative bias however I am still noticing it trying to cherry the plate a bit in recieve mode I have -25 vdc in recieve and -37 vdc in transmit, is this backwards perhaps since it was once a recieve...
I have replaced it since the JB-150 went down as the original one was bad, I have a pack of 10 of then and replaced it again before this post, same results, I ordered a different zener so I will try that next thanks for your help on this Shockwave, we'll see what happens when I get the other one
That is a brand new zener Shockwave that I installed right before the photo was taken and I haven't had a tube in the unit since I have been repairing it ♂️
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