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EC Tremoluxes are a bit fizzy when dimed anyway, but... I had an EC tremolux on the bench a couple of months ago with 'over fuzzy' distortion and a bit of loss of 'oomph'. After going over it with a fine tooth comb for a couple of hours, I noticed there was a-few-too-many volts difference across eac...

The culprit

Bg wrote: ↑Fri Aug 21, 2020 3:41 pmnothing on RS?

I got nuthin on DPDT mini short bat

Who the fuck makes amps with short bat mini toggle switches?

Morgan Amplification - that's who

NippleWrestler wrote: ↑Fri Aug 21, 2020 5:14 pmWhat are you looking for? An on/on?

Yup. Thanks for this. Tayda had a US$5 order minimum + US$10 shipping. I'm trying to skimp

Just like the short tail bat LoL

So where y'all gettin your short bat micro DPDTs from?

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Cdog wrote:Congrats on getting this far... it's looking rather grand.
RE: EL84 heat - Check your heater voltages?

Yes, straight from the transformer, 6.7vac

Try a pair of anti-parallel 6A diodes in series with one side of the heater winding. This should drop the heater winding voltage by 0.6VAC

AC4 circuit would fit that

Bog standard Sovtek 6L6WXT (which are a kind of 5881/6P3Se equivalent but not 'coin bass') will work fine and you can still get them relatively cheap. Bias them as if they are 23W max diss. I've put these in a few Super Reverbs as replacement tubes and none of them have boomeranged back to me (touch...

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Looks Purdy

Any of the Sunn amps

Ampeg SVT sounds the meanest, but keeping the 6 x 6550s happy is an art form, and the transformer weight is a beaatch.

100W -200W Fender tube bass amps are tried and true.

Cool little IOS app Innit?

Bg wrote: I'm sure you're taking the piss

Don't care. I pay big bucks for my toan and I wanna effing hear it.

The rectifier protection diodes are a no-brainer. As for the heater fuses, remember that filament resistance is really low when the filaments are cold (at startup), so the filaments will draw quite heavily for the first second or so, and then current draw will decrease as the heat kicks in. This wil...

Stratitude!