Hi,
A few months ago I bougt a RCA 400 16mm film projector at a school flea market. Costed me 20 dollars. It looked cool, had a mic input and I had a feeling I could use it for something. Well, today I powered it up, plugged a tele into it and to my surprise it sounded really cool.
This is how it looks:
As I said it has a mic input. It also has a volume knob and a tone control. You can turn off the projector section so you won't get any noise from that . A few minutes after I powered it up I heard a scary sound from the inside, like something was frying. Don't know what it was but after turning it off and on again it was fine. :grin:
I was now thinking that there had to be some good stuff inside this thing, and this is what I found:
TUBES!!! :shock:
There are three RCA6V6GT's, one RCA5Y3GT, one RCA6L7GT and one smaller preamp tube that was covered by a shield. There are trafo's too. One RCA6J7 (I think It said s-09 on the actual trafo. Might be a UTC?), one big black and one more that I don't remember.
Here is a few more pics:
The "amp" has a great tone. It distorts in a really nice way and it plays loud enough for me (with the volume at 7 I had a few great hours today).
I don't know if this is of any interest to you guys, but it was so much fun. :grin:
Anyone know something about this circuit?
Thanks
Richard
A few months ago I bougt a RCA 400 16mm film projector at a school flea market. Costed me 20 dollars. It looked cool, had a mic input and I had a feeling I could use it for something. Well, today I powered it up, plugged a tele into it and to my surprise it sounded really cool.
This is how it looks:
As I said it has a mic input. It also has a volume knob and a tone control. You can turn off the projector section so you won't get any noise from that . A few minutes after I powered it up I heard a scary sound from the inside, like something was frying. Don't know what it was but after turning it off and on again it was fine. :grin:
I was now thinking that there had to be some good stuff inside this thing, and this is what I found:
TUBES!!! :shock:
There are three RCA6V6GT's, one RCA5Y3GT, one RCA6L7GT and one smaller preamp tube that was covered by a shield. There are trafo's too. One RCA6J7 (I think It said s-09 on the actual trafo. Might be a UTC?), one big black and one more that I don't remember.
Here is a few more pics:
The "amp" has a great tone. It distorts in a really nice way and it plays loud enough for me (with the volume at 7 I had a few great hours today).
I don't know if this is of any interest to you guys, but it was so much fun. :grin:
Anyone know something about this circuit?
Thanks
Richard