[ARC5] R-27/ARC-5 Hookup Question

[J. Forster]

As you wish. I'm not going to cut anything in my receiver.

-John

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> On 07/19/2013 08:38 PM, J. Forster wrote:
>> I'm not so sure that's a good idea.
>>
>> Among other things it dissipates a lot of power in one of the screen
>> resistors (near 9W) and pulls roughly 35 mA from the dyno.
>>
>> -John
>>
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>>
> Hi John,
>
> Thanks for your concern about that. I already noticed that I can't just
> pull that line to ground as it's wired now. That is, pulling the
> junction of those two resistors to ground looks pretty dicey to me too.
> I'm thinking more of isolating the screens of those three tubes so they
> can be pulled to ground without much influencing the resistors in the
> original circuit. A reversal would just cut out the added parts and
> reconnect the screens as original. Achieving QSK is worth the effort to
> me. YMMV.
>
> 73,
>
> Bill  KU8H
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