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Old 25th Sep 2018, 6:59 pm   #8
Al (astral highway)
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Default Re: 120W PP EL34 amplifier re-born.

Hi Andy,

That sounds like an irksome situation! I hope you had a nice walk and some relaxing time away from it for a bit.

I’m thinking, if your LTP stage was all sweet-as ,yesterday, and it’s not today, and your’re suddenly getting just 1V PP there, how about catastrophic failure of a passive component , specifically a coupling capacitor?

Perhaps you’ve transiently exceeded a voltage somewhere and now you have a big old leaky thing in hiding.

Alternatively, wildly thinking outside the normal range of options .... is this beast in a building outside? With drastically lower temps over the last few days, what if you’ve got some condensation in there?

These ideas don’t need circuit-specific knowledge , I know , but just putting them out there !
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