Introductions and a novice's question
I have just recently started collecting old Hewlett Packard test equipment, though I have been actively collecting and restoring Tektronix equipment for over a year. I started my HP collection with
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Jeff Dutky
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Re: How can I measure the bandwidth of an audio transformer with the HP8903B ?
Hello, I did not ask this question earlier to be argumentative but only for my own curiosity.? When I was in high school (It was a very dark cave!), during the golden age of tube hi fi amplifiers, we
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Jack Reynolds
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Re: How can I measure the bandwidth of an audio transformer with the HP8903B ?
Answer...u,clear the intended frequency range, so type in l8ad.is in question. 1/ no need to vary the load resistance as hi-fi amplifiers are rated driving a 4 or 8 ohm resistance load, not a voice
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Froggie the Gremlin
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Re: How can I measure the bandwidth of an audio transformer with the HP8903B ?
I haven't done the math or measurement, but I question that (for example) a 20 ohm, 20 watt rheostat has enough inductance to be important at audio frequencies. It's an air-core coil, wound on
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saipan59 (Pete)
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Re: How can I measure the bandwidth of an audio transformer with the HP8903B ?
That's probably all the information you need to make approximate measurements of the transformer frequency response.? As others have said, if you want precision, you pretty much have to build the
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Jim Allyn - N7JA
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Re: How can I measure the bandwidth of an audio transformer with the HP8903B ?
Why would the inductance of either the rheostat or a wire wound load resistor be of significance when it is basically substituting for a voice coil (a coil of wire)? Jack
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Jack Reynolds
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Re: How can I measure the bandwidth of an audio transformer with the HP8903B ?
Thanks Jon, the rheostat would serve to match the reflected impedance to the amplifier tubes to test different transformers. Alternatively I could think of a switch to select different anti-inductive
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Attilio
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Re: How can I measure the bandwidth of an audio transformer with the HP8903B ?
Atillo, 1/ use a non inductif 8 ohm power resistance NOT rehostat for load. Too inductif! Carborundum made "globar" tubular loads for dummy loads for TX. 2/ Use classic RCA valve app notes 1950s on
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Froggie the Gremlin
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Re: HP 1727A CRO: Problem with the vertical output amplifier.
Hi Alex, I wouldn't describe that output stage as a push-pull topology. The pulling up is just passive; there's only active pulldown. The output stage is a slightly modified, but otherwise
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Tom Lee
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Re: HP 1727A CRO: Problem with the vertical output amplifier.
That is certainly what it looks like, but looking at the schematic the vertical output amp is not like any push-pull driver I am used to seeing.
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Alex_03
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Re: How can I measure the bandwidth of an audio transformer with the HP8903B ?
Thanks Jon, you are right, but the measurement can be used to make comparisons and to have a first indication of the transformer. Pete, great idea, I had thought about it, but I had not thought about
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Attilio
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Re: HP 1727A CRO: Problem with the vertical output amplifier.
Just my 2 cents here, but to me it looks like crossover distortion, so you might want to check around the base polarization of a final push-pull amplifier or a push-pull driver. Of course could be a
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Francesco Messineo
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Re: HP 1727A CRO: Problem with the vertical output amplifier.
The input signal for the captures was not the calibrator, it was an external function generator. I chose triangle because it makes it easiest to see the distortion on the screen, sine shows it too and
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Alex_03
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Re: massive attachments
Reminds me of a saying... It is better to don sandals than carpet the world. What's next?? Demanding people wear certain things (that has nothing to do with covering indecent exposure) in public or
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Matt Harris
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Re: hp3478A
Greetings Roberto. The Panasonic BR-2/3AE5SPN is an exact replacement and is readily available from the standard electronics suppliers. I usually purchase them from either Mouser or DigiKey in the
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Dave McGuire
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Re: How can I measure the bandwidth of an audio transformer with the HP8903B ?
From the advice, it would seem that the best approach would be to build a tube driver and output stage (or modify an existing one) in such a way that it is very easy to swap the transformer with
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saipan59 (Pete)
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Re: eCal & HP-8753E
The FW change does not affect the calibration constants nor options however you might end up with a black screen, the main issue here is that the 8753E and higher used a LCD rather than a CRT display,
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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Re: How can I measure the bandwidth of an audio transformer with the HP8903B ?
Bonjour how Attillo Very fine question Audio output Transformers with a steel core are nonlinear, the induction, and parameters vary with frequency and voltage excitation. Thurs a network or impedance
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Froggie the Gremlin
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Re: Storage Cap Ripple
Okay, well I can't find anything amiss with C7 on A20. It measures 10uF @ 0.5 Ohms in circuit (a *very* low ESR for a 10uF 63V cap!) so I don't see how replacing it would help at all, I'm sorry to
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Jinxie
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