Posts by Rigel

Quote from MAD

Hi Rigel,
sorry for the late reply but I finally found an unused Pt to do the measurement
I measure quite the same values: 38 ohms for 3-7, 0,1 Ohms for 16-18 and 100 ohms for 10-12 so the PT seems to be OK. The reason for the blown fuse could be a broken tube with a shortage, so you should test the amp (after replacing the fuse) w/o tubes first. And yes, the PT gets quite warm, as long as you can touch it it's fine.
Regards,
Martin

Hi Martin, thanks for your help! Glad to hear my PT is working as designed.
Looks like it was some momentary short that caused the issue: I did some thorough visual inspection on the amp, checked all the soldering, bent the tube sockets pins more outwards to make sure they don't touch, then started the amp through a current limiter, without and with tubes. Everything looked fine, so I fired the amp up at full voltage and managed to play without a problem for now. Hopefully it'll stay that way

Hi guys, my J5 suddenly stopped working after a couple of months: I checked the fuse and it's showing no continuity.
Before blowing the only replacement fuse I have at the moment I wanted to take some measurements.
The power transformer used to get quite hot after an hour of use, so that's the first suspect.
I could still keep my hand on the top surface without burning myself, but it sure was uncomfortable. (Is it supposed to run that hot?)

This is what I measured.
Primary (pins 3-7): 38.6 ohms
Heater (pins 16-18): 1.0 ohm (unsoldered leads)
HT secondary (pins 10-12): 100.4 ohms (leads still on, standby switch open)
Shorted test leads: 0.9 ohms

How do these ones look?

Quote from Woj_Solder

Hi,

This is my second pedal build. I just soldered Screamer v2.0 with this schematic: https://www.musikding.de/docs/…mer/screamerV2_schalt.pdf

The effect is very quiet, quieter than when bypassed. I can hear it starts to break up with Gain fully turned up, but barely. Below are the pictures + some meassurements.

IC: 1- 4,49V, 2- 4,62V, 3- 4,7V, 4- 0V, 5- 4,45V, 6- 4,45V, 7- 4,45V, 8- 9,2V (anti clockwise, starting from marked input),
T1: E- 3,02V, B- 3,53V, C- 9,2V.
T2: E- 3,06V, B- 3,56V, C- 9,2V,

I suspect caps I received for C2 and C8 are 1n instead of 1u - I cannot read it. I dont expect this to be an issue though.

I hope one of you will be able to spot my mistake. I've been looking at that board for past 2 days Any help will be appreciated

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Hi, I'm not sure if you still need this or if you managed to fix the issue, but I'm seeing some bridging solder here:

Thanks everyone for the quick answers, I suspected I was missing something

Hi guys, I've finished building my J5MK1 kit, I had a lot of fun and it was a great learning experience, and I'm loving the sound so far.

I decided to take some extra measurements, in particular the ones needed to calculate how much power is dissipated through the plate of the EL84. I'm reporting them below.
The R19/R20 in parallel measures 232 ohm, and the voltage across them is 8.67 volt; this means 0.03737 ampere are flowing through the resistors.
The plate to cathode voltage (pins 7 vs 3) is 273 volt.
237 V * 0.03737 A= 10.2 W.
According to the JJ datasheet the maximum plate power is 12 W. Usually you choose the 70% of that (8.4 W) as a safe upper limit to have a decent tube lifespan.
Is my math wrong, or am I driving the output tube way too hard? Should I increase the cathode resistor value?
Thanks