Look What Followed Me Home Mom, Can I keep It??

[laatsch55]

Monkey Wards Tuber. Karoke night, can mix Mic with phono input!!!

 

[Gepetto]

amp is in nice shape for its age.

 

[Gepetto]

is the output transformer under the chassis?

 

[laatsch55]

No Joe it's right out there with the tubes..

 

[laatsch55]

OK, as ignorant as I am about tubes, is there more than 1 transformer?

 

[laatsch55]

Even had the factory cover. Yep another tranny....

 

[Gepetto]

You generally need an impedance matching transformer Lee. There are transformerless designs but they are rare.

That amp is sweet, very retro

 

[laatsch55]

60 years old??

 

[Gepetto]

probably somewhere in that range, 1950ish

 

[Gepetto]

gotta love the microphone that came with it...

 

[laatsch55]

The microphone is out of Lee's stash....................

 

[Gepetto]

it can double as a radar gun

 

[laatsch55]

OK, cute little bugger though.

 

[Elite-ist]

Nice little tube amplifier, Lee. A gift?

Nando.

 

[laatsch55]

A friend rescued it from a dumpster and knew where to bring it.

 

[laatsch55]

So, anybody want to give me a design description?? Like a single ended triode, or a four sided pentode,......

 

[Gepetto]

So, anybody want to give me a design description?? Like a single ended triode, or a four sided pentode,......

It doesn't have the setup to be push pull so that would likely make it single ended. The 6L6 is a pentode power tube so that might make it a single ended pentode...

Just a guess since no schematics are available.

I would imagine low wattage as well, probably 10-15W output.

 

[Skratch]

I agree with Joe, It looks like it is wired as a pentode. Watch the multi-section filter cap when you fire it up, if it hums or gets warm it needs to be replaced.

 

[laatsch55]

Ya mean the silver can lookin thing??

 

[Skratch]

Yes, That is the about the only thing that goes bad in a tube amp.