millzners
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I've had in my possession for some time this old relic. It's a GE Audio Oscillator, complete with manual and a sales receipt from 1949. Today I turned it on for the first time, and found that it kind of works. It has an output, but it's just a constant 120Hz ugly looking sine wave. The frequency knob does not affect the signal in any way. The gain knob does work, and you can get from 0 to ~8 VAC output.
So, if you were the proud owner of such an ancient and somewhat functional piece of equipment, what would you do with it?
Some options:
So, if you were the proud owner of such an ancient and somewhat functional piece of equipment, what would you do with it?
Some options:
- Fix it, and use it as it was originally intended.
- Take the working components out of it and use them in something. It does have 2 (assumably working) GE 6SN7-GT tubes which I have to assume are the originals, plus 2 6J5, and 1 5Y3-GT tubes, and a couple different xfo's.
- Tap into the audio amplifier and use it as a preamp.