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22nd Oct 2021, 9:41 pm | #21 |
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Re: Homebrew Record Player. BSR UA6 deck and RS Components. Stereo Amplifier.
Hi Ken
Yes I can see that the cable is not connected but it should be, Can you show a picture of the backs of the volume and tone controls? Cheers Mike T
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Thanks Mike,
it is confusing to me, so I should connect the wire to that transformer that connect to the speaker , I think its only the wire that needs to be connected, so its the inner wire to the inner wire and the outer wire to the outer , I will do that and send you a picture before I solder it, Regards Ken |
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Re: Homebrew Record Player. BSR UA6 deck and RS Components. Stereo Amplifier.
OK I will.
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22nd Oct 2021, 10:00 pm | #24 |
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Re: Homebrew Record Player. BSR UA6 deck and RS Components. Stereo Amplifier.
Hi Ken
Send pictures before you do anything. Are you saying that the cable is for the speaker? If that's the case I am surprised you were getting a hum. It looked to me that the long cable was going to the cartridge connections on the record deck. Cheers Mike T
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Re: Homebrew Record Player. BSR UA6 deck and RS Components. Stereo Amplifier.
On that little mb, where the wire connects to the speaker, is that where I should connect the wire from the pick-up arm?
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22nd Oct 2021, 10:33 pm | #26 |
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Re: Homebrew Record Player. BSR UA6 deck and RS Components. Stereo Amplifier.
No the cable from the arm is going nowhere at the moment the cable from that little MB is going to the speaker.
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22nd Oct 2021, 10:59 pm | #27 |
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Re: Homebrew Record Player. BSR UA6 deck and RS Components. Stereo Amplifier.
Are there any connections on the underside of that MB?
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22nd Oct 2021, 11:03 pm | #28 |
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Re: MONARCH BSR Black Box
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22nd Oct 2021, 11:07 pm | #29 |
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I meant the underside of Photo 2, the side that you cannot see.
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23rd Oct 2021, 7:32 am | #30 |
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Yes, it sort of was, but it was a special version of the BSR UA6 made for Pye. It had an all-metal tone arm and a Pye badge added on a moulding at the rear of the arm. The version shown in the OP's photos was the standard UA6.
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23rd Oct 2021, 7:46 am | #31 |
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Black Box was a generic term that came from use within the RAF during WW2 to designate a "special device", such as in-flight recorder. Also during the War Pye made a large number of special devices like IF strips (of EF50 fame) for the RAF. Therefore when Pye planned the launch of their new compact record player for home use in late 1953, they used the (familiar to them) name "Black Box". Indeed there was a Black version. Born of my Farther's WW2 avionics experience, and also my time at Pye in the 1950s, I hope this explanation helps.
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Re: Homebrew Record Player. BSR UA6 deck and RS Components. Stereo Amplifier.
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Perhaps there's something written on the insulation covering the wiring?
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Anyone care to draw up a diagram showing the interconnections between the various parts? Pickup/cartridge, volume and tone controls, amplifier, output transformer, filament transformer, rectifier, smoothing capacitor and another transformer, or perhaps a smoothing choke.
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23rd Oct 2021, 10:32 am | #34 |
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Re: Homebrew Record Player. BSR UA6 deck and RS Components. Stereo Amplifier.
So far as I can make out the screened cable from the pickup should connect to the volume control (which looks to be the top control in the 1st photo in the last set of photo's) I would say the signal wire (the center lead of the screened cable) goes to the top tag (as viewed in the photo) and the screen (the outer copper braiding) goes to the bottom tag (as viewed in the photo)
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23rd Oct 2021, 10:51 am | #37 |
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Re: Homebrew Record Player. BSR UA6 deck and RS Components. Stereo Amplifier.
There doesn't seem to be any way of turning the player OFF. The orange lawnmower? mains lead goes straight to the mains transformer and there are no connections to the double pole switch ganged with the volume control.
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23rd Oct 2021, 10:57 am | #38 |
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Re: Homebrew Record Player. BSR UA6 deck and RS Components. Stereo Amplifier.
The use of the wording "Stereo Amplifier" may confuse some Members who may have missed parts of this lengthening Thread. There's just a Mono amp connected to an Elac elliptical speaker (now I can see it) but constructed on a Stereo amp PCB.
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23rd Oct 2021, 12:50 pm | #40 |
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Re: Homebrew Record Player. BSR UA6 deck and RS Components. Stereo Amplifier.
True the only way I can turn it off is by pulling out the mains plug.
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