One of my resistors on the combiner gets hot on key up. And one of my 10 ohm resistors on that pill burned as well.
The HG are fine and do a good job, but they can't be over driven and survive like the Toshibas can. I believe the fake Toshibas and HG are too different to mix with the real Toshibas as the tuning requirements are slightly different. Maybe someone who has gone down this road can chime in.What’s your opinion on the HGs? My thoughts was buy one of the China knock offs Toshibas and hope for the best. If that don’t work. I’ll save up for a matched set of HGs.
Looks good, I would get those loose solder balls out of there. They can create havoc.Update on amp. Used 6 regulators instead of 3. Do each fan has its own dedicated regulator. Also used some aluminum plates for heat sinks. Replaced the one bad pill. Seems to work well. Thanks for all the advice. Greatly appreciated. Cheers!!!
Bad Keying circuitOk, another issue popped up. Looking for Thoughts. I was running this amp and working fine. Took a break and come back after a few minutes. When keyed down it has no out put and blocks all drive watts. Turn off the amp and it passes all the drive watts. What would yall think could cause this? Bad set of points on the relay maybe. Relay switches on like it should. I have
done no diagnostics on it yet. Just looking for suggestions on a starting point. Sorry to keep beating this horse. But hey this is what drives every radio operator right.
It is being keyed with an external keying circuit. I drive it with an older tube linear. And they are keyed with the same controller. The relay is pulling in on both driver and main amp.Bad Keying circuit