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D&A maverick 250 C13 how to tune it?

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just working on the maverick. someone made a mess of the tank coil L5 under there. It says 5 turns is it 5 from earth or 5 from the cathode?
I seen images that show the tap 1 loop to the left. Also this trimmer. Do I tune for max smoke or is this a bias?

thanks!

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750w. I think I'm just gonna leave it
Put a nail in it.

Just be sure the Driver tune is peaked in between the two extremes. A peak with the plates fully apart or fully meshed isn't really a peak. Wouldn't hurt to blow the dust layer off the plates.

C19 is set with a SWR meter and coax jumper between the radio and the input jack. Normally gets set for minimum SWR between the radio and amplifier when keyed and tuned properly.

Lookin' good.

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I cant believe those original mallory HV caps are still going strong...whatever that formula was they should go back to it. No bleeders either. is that the secret?

Also if you see there that strap going past that trimmer (first post) was actually contacting the other strap going to the driver cheesecutter. Maybe it was blowing the tap off the tank coil? Well I dragged it out of the way while replacing that choke.
One thing about taking pictures of my junk is I can study it in more detail than when its on the table.

Is this the input tune? So theres 2 of them?

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I cant believe those original mallory HV caps are still going strong...whatever that formula was they should go back to it. No bleeders either. is that the secret?
I would say low mileage. Can't imagine this amplifier has a lot of key-down hours on it. Ed DuLaney got away with leaving off the individual bleeders because he was buying those caps in bulk lots. Parts from the same manufacturing batch tend to have well-matched characteristics. Individual bleeders have two functions. First, to bleed off the stored charge when powered down. The single bleeder across all three caps the factory used won't do this. Second function is to make sure the voltage is divided evenly three ways. Each electrolytic capacitor is also a resistor. A fairly high-value resistor, but all electrolytics have what's called "leakage" resistance. Three caps from the same day's production will tend to have nearly the same internal leakage resistance, and thus divide the DC voltage pretty equally. But if you don't have this advantage you can't count on getting a good match on this one of the capacitor's specs. Three caps each with a different brand probably won't match quite so well. The equalizing resistors serve to keep the DC voltage divided equally so none of the series caps gets more than the rated voltage across it. Bad juju when that happens.

And yeah, the Mallory caps were definitely high-quality parts. Just takes 50 years to find out.

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