Marshall 18 watt Lite IIb with asymmetrical power amp

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Post by timbo_93631 »

RnFR wrote:could this underspec'd transformer thing be the reason I like the silvertone 1484 so much, and the same reason they all tend to eventually blow their Xformers(be it 40-50 years after they are built)? or is that a whole 'nother deal?
I find this to be true of my Supro 1616t, the potting has melted/bubbled out a little sometime before I got it but it is still going strong, but I fear that it'll eventually go. The Valco OT is teeny compared to a Champ OT.
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Hi timbo,

Thank you for the links. I will try to learn more about this kind of amps.

I don´t think that using tubes this way will be a waste of glass as been wrote before. :lol:

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Hi timbo,

Finally you have built this amplifier?

I want to try to do something similar, but would be nice to know what happened to this design.

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Post by Dr Tony Balls »

for what its worth, this design is VERY similar to a series of designs that have been kicking around over at the Weber forum known as the "Phat Ass". Username ScottVA came up with a design that was intended to use the input section from an 18W lite, the tone stack from a 5E3 Deluxe, a long-tailed PI, and then a cathode biased output section. I think he might have started with a quad of EL84s, but folks over on that board have run with it and done pairs of EL84, 6V6, 6L6, EL34, and KT66. I built one with KT66s and posted about it here:

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13635

Anyway.....the amps screams, and im sure the design in the original post does as well.
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