11-29-2017, 09:35 PM
Hello all, my first post!
I've had success with a handful of table tops but this bad boy is giving me a spanking! I have technical skills but am fairly new to toobs, mostly automotive stuff (hence the username). I own a DVM with cap tester and basic tube tester, that's all right now. The 690 receives ok on all bands (with my crap-o antenna). Somebody has been in there before me. Some lytics were replaced.
What I've replaced:
Thanks!
I've had success with a handful of table tops but this bad boy is giving me a spanking! I have technical skills but am fairly new to toobs, mostly automotive stuff (hence the username). I own a DVM with cap tester and basic tube tester, that's all right now. The 690 receives ok on all bands (with my crap-o antenna). Somebody has been in there before me. Some lytics were replaced.
What I've replaced:
- All lytics and paper caps, excluding any mica caps and anything under the IF expander cans.
- All resistors except two buried in the RF chassis under the switch assembly, including the candohms with ceramics.
- Replaced the X-over 1mic cap with a 4.7 film cap.
- Changed polarity on one tweeter VC.
- Cleaned and lubed everything.
- Tubes test ok. Replaced both 6L6s with Tube Doctor units.
- The 3 xfmrs and 2 chokes on the lower chassis ohm pretty close. I have since read that I should have removed all tubes, which I did not.
- Speaker wiring, frayed but no shorts or opens.
- All 3 FCs and VCs ohm good.
- Volume pots ohm good.
- Tone controls pots ohm ok but treble does not go to zero on either end.
- Checked and double checked my work, but there's a lota stuff in there! I could have easily missed something.
- About 1/2 the volume that I would expect.
- If you remove either 6L6, no noticeable change in volume.
- As you increase treble (CW) the volume diminishes to near nothing.
- Bass control functions but will distort sound at full CW.
- One tweeter is lower volume than the other. The lower volume tweet FC is cold, louder one is lukewarm. This symptom follows wiring swap to the opposite tweeter.
Thanks!