[AMRadio] Re: Ranger... good news, bad news

[Jack Schmidling]

Gary Schafer wrote:

> So unless you have some higher gain tubes in the amp 12 to 15 watts drive
> will not be enough drive.
> 
> Now you can tune and load the amp to get the 125 watts out with lower drive
> but it won't be linear.

Now I am really getting confused.

I have contended all along that it takes about 20w drive.  Everything 
seems to work well including 100% mod when I drive with 20w.  Only 
problem being that the tubes redden.

As a point of interest, I am using 6L6's in the modulator but assume 
they just won't last as long and not effect the amount of modulation. 
Is this a good assumption?

js



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