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Philco 38-690 electronics restoration.
morzh
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10-28-2017, 08:54 PM
OK. It lives!

Last Sunday I installed the interstage (guess what, the wire colors were correct!) and today I installed the output xfmr. Yes it is ugly as I had to solder external inline fuse.
Then attached the tweeters, the woofer. Thought of powering up tomorrow but decided today. It took it about over a minute if not two to warm up: while some reaction was there when touching the grid caps, a full fleged hum appeared after that much time. And then I pulled the local station loud and clear. No music so cannot judge the tweeters and the quality but the speech is good.
More tomorrow.

   
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Philco 38-690 electronics restoration. - by morzh - 04-12-2017, 08:19 PM
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