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  • PV Classic 30 Pre Heaters Dead

    Hello

    I have a PV Classic 30 on the bench with dead preamp tube heaters. I am getting no voltage to the filament pins. The power tube heaters were also dead but found a broken jumper connecting FIL1 on the schematic and the EL84s are now glowing but all 3 preamps are not.

    I suspect I have another bad jumper to replace somewhere but can't figure out where the preamp heater voltages (FIL A and FIL B on preamp heater pins) originate from? They are not listed on the schematic that I can see.

    Any help/insight is appreciated.
    Schematic is attached.
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  • #2
    V3b gets the -36V, V1A has the ground, the rest of the filaments are in series between those.
    Originally posted by Enzo
    I have a sign in my shop that says, "Never think up reasons not to check something."


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    • #3
      Ah now I see. thanks for clarifying. Going to start tracking now

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      • #4
        Seeing 1.8vAC on V3 pin 5. No -36v per the schematic

        Confused by how these filaments are wired really:
        V3A pin 4 and V2B pin 5 are marked "FIL A"
        V2A pin 4 and V1B pin 5 are marked "FIL B"
        V1A pin 4 is marked with a series symbol?
        V3B pin 5 marked with -36v

        So which pins should be seeing voltage and how much?

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        • #5
          OK new problem. This thing is making me nuts. Found another broken jumper and replaced it. Got the preamp tubes lighting. Then R67 burns up???

          it is a 180R resistor feeding -30v somewhere. Any ideas?

          This thing is making me crazy

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          • #6
            Never mind. Bad reverb opamp causing R67 to cook. Replaced both and good to go.

            Terrible amps to work on. Why would you ever fold up a circuit board and put 200 jumpers on it when there is plenty of room in the chassis to lay it out flat

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            • #7
              Make sure your jumper connection is clean and didn't jump over to another component or wire. The only other thing that would cause that is a short somewhere maybe in the -15 volt circuit but there really isn't enough current in that circuit to fry that resistor so check that jumper good.
              KB

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