Philips EL34

12 discussions on ElectronDepot about the Philips EL34: what owners asked, what went wrong, and what fixed it.

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Zeners in Series

Whilst mere hobbyists like myself can easily get away with making up a desired zener value from putting two smaller value ones in series to add together their rated voltages, can such a dodge be employed by professional designers without...

The Loudspeaker - Some things never change

I've been playing around with electronics since I was in my teens, which was in the 1960s. Some electronic components have drastically changed, while others have always been about the same. The main components were once vacuum tubes, then...

High-ohm grid resistor in tube (pre)amp design

Hi all,I regularly repair tube amplifiers, and there's one thing I occasionallyencounter that doesn't appear to make much sense: a high resistor (> 100K)in series with one of the first 12AX7 preamp tube grids.OK, I fully understand that...

EL34 output-trafo

HejSom om jeg ikke har rørforstærkere nok, så overvejer jeg at bygge en konstruktion fra Elektor april/may 2003 m. EL34 i UL/PP, ECC83 og EF86 - Valve Final Amp kalder de den :o)Jeg er nu ved at undersøge hvordan og hvorledes med dele...

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