This punk's not feeling lucky 😊. I'll stick with 6DJ8 and variants and adaptered 5670 and variants.
Thanks for your input jea48; it helped me make a sane decision.
Anyone use a 5687 with adapter in place of a 6922/6DJ8/7308/6N23P?
Have a small stash of original 1955 Raytheon 5687 (on contract to Sperry Gyroscopic Company for Us Air Force use) that are legit NOS/NIB. They sounded better than anything else of that tube type that I tried in a pair of monoblocks that I no longer have. Contemplating buying 2 of these adapters and running them in place of the 6N23Ps in a Dodd Battery Powered preamp.
Couldn't find anything on the Forum about this.
Anyone do this? What'd you think?
Thanks for any intel.
@jea48 ; thank you for that info. I knew the 5687 had a higher heater current than the 6922, but given that the device I'm contemplating running the adaptered 5687 in is battery powered, it doesn't have a power transformer. I suppose that the relevant question is 'can the battery bank provide sufficient voltage for the 5687 to operate properly?'. I sure don't know. Maybe the even more relevant question is 'given my ignorance of the answer to the other question, should I try it or not?'. A certain Clint Eastwood quote comes to mind... Happy to be further educated, or to receive opinions. |
The preamp uses two 6922, one per channel, albeit only one triode per double triode is used. It's quite remarkable to me that this, what I think is the only audio gain structure of it's kind, generates 16 dB of gain. Regarding Ah; I've gone to LiFePO4 batteries which upped the Ah from "factory" (read: Gary Dodd's shop) 20 (lead acid) to 24. The 4 batteries are housed in the preamp chassis, so I think going any higher in Ah would require an external arrangement...at least with current technology, though this technology is advancing rapidly. The heat, oh yeah, I remember that from amps they used to play in. I'm disinclined to risk a difficult to find and repair piece of gear without some evidence of previous successful traversals of this trail. I was hoping someone here would have experience with this particular modification. I'll stick with experimenting with adaptered versions of the 5670/396a/2C51 family of tubes for which there's an abundance of documented successful traversal. Thank you for your engagement with my question jea48. |
Well I’m wrong again...means I’m learning :) Can get to 36Ah with onboard batteries:
I remain happily confused, always indicative of awareness of ignorance...much better than unawareness of ignorance. Others’ insights welcome. |