a tube box on 9V

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this is a tube box my first make
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what is it, and what does it do?
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Just a quick question: You are using 9v to supply tube heaters? It's a little bit under the specified voltage (12.6 between pin 4 and 5) - you could use 12v to supply the whole pedal and get more headroom and also you will be within the specs for the heaters.

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Looks like the schematic is based on the Valvecaster....... :hmmm:
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Below what we call a building drawing.
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The Schematic looks like this:
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Note the differences. The building diagram is handy for building the thing, even if you do not know what it does. The schematic is to understand what is going on.




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Ok ... but again... wouldn't be more convenient to use a 12V supply then a 9V? ?


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Most definitely.
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I agree Darkrain, 9V would mean that the cathodes of the valve aren't able to reach their full electron-emission capabilities, also, I seem to remember reading somewhere that if you run a valve at a lower heater voltage, it can lead to something called "Cathode Poisoning", incidentaly, I tried building a Valvecaster but it didn't work well and hummed alot..... :thumbsup
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DrNomis wrote:I agree Darkrain, 9V would mean that the cathodes of the valve aren't able to reach their full electron-emission capabilities, also, I seem to remember reading somewhere that if you run a valve at a lower heater voltage, it can lead to something called "Cathode Poisoning", incidentaly, I tried building a Valvecaster but it didn't work well and hummed alot..... :thumbsup

what about 18VDC??

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copachino wrote:
DrNomis wrote:I agree Darkrain, 9V would mean that the cathodes of the valve aren't able to reach their full electron-emission capabilities, also, I seem to remember reading somewhere that if you run a valve at a lower heater voltage, it can lead to something called "Cathode Poisoning", incidentaly, I tried building a Valvecaster but it didn't work well and hummed alot..... :thumbsup

what about 18VDC??
:) Well ... again why?! Standard voltage for heaters is: 6.3 or 12.6 so i choose 12.6 beacause:
1 i can supply the heaters with the same PSU
2 it's better the 6.3 in terms of voltage

Why to drop 3 volts or 5v on a resistor ... (@300 or 150mA it can get hot) when... you don't have to drop anything and use 12V as supply ...

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copachino wrote:
DrNomis wrote:I agree Darkrain, 9V would mean that the cathodes of the valve aren't able to reach their full electron-emission capabilities, also, I seem to remember reading somewhere that if you run a valve at a lower heater voltage, it can lead to something called "Cathode Poisoning", incidentaly, I tried building a Valvecaster but it didn't work well and hummed alot..... :thumbsup

what about 18VDC??


18V DC will burn-out the valve heater, unless you put a resistor in that'll drop about 6V (which means alot of power dissipation in the form of heat), once the heater burns-out the valve is useless...... :thumbsup
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DrNomis wrote:
copachino wrote:
DrNomis wrote:I agree Darkrain, 9V would mean that the cathodes of the valve aren't able to reach their full electron-emission capabilities, also, I seem to remember reading somewhere that if you run a valve at a lower heater voltage, it can lead to something called "Cathode Poisoning", incidentaly, I tried building a Valvecaster but it didn't work well and hummed alot..... :thumbsup

what about 18VDC??


18V DC will burn-out the valve heater, unless you put a resistor in that'll drop about 6V (which means alot of power dissipation in the form of heat), once the heater burns-out the valve is useless...... :thumbsup
how much current would it be drawing? would an lm7812 be the ticket?
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rocklander wrote:
DrNomis wrote:
copachino wrote:
DrNomis wrote:I agree Darkrain, 9V would mean that the cathodes of the valve aren't able to reach their full electron-emission capabilities, also, I seem to remember reading somewhere that if you run a valve at a lower heater voltage, it can lead to something called "Cathode Poisoning", incidentaly, I tried building a Valvecaster but it didn't work well and hummed alot..... :thumbsup

what about 18VDC??


18V DC will burn-out the valve heater, unless you put a resistor in that'll drop about 6V (which means alot of power dissipation in the form of heat), once the heater burns-out the valve is useless...... :thumbsup
how much current would it be drawing? would an lm7812 be the ticket?
According to the DS it's 150mA per tube @ 12.6v that would be 18-12=6v dropout @ 150mA that would be 1W of power, a 7812 in a To220 package would be ok.

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Looking forward to the 4 tube version!
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Dirk_Hendrik wrote:Looking forward to the 4 tube version!
It would be a beautiful pedal to look at.
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