buildafriend
Well-known member
Hi,
I've decided to take a crack at building a sears silvertone 1484, mostly turret boarded. Hopefully I can pull this off. I already have the mercury magnetics transformers and choke and now im ordering parts on mouser. Wish me luck, this will probably take a while since I'll be piecing it together over time to decrease the burn in my wallet.
The first road block I've hit is I dont know what to use for c26, c27, c28, and c29. They are near the power transformer on the schemo. maybe the schemo is designating 100uF and 150V? I'm starting to think thats what it means..
http://harmony.demont.net/documents/schematics/amps/silvertone_1484.pdf
I'm wondering since the original used 20% tolerance carbon comp resistors if using 1% metal film will take away from the crappy/awesome explodiness this thing does when you crank it. I think there might be some beauty in the push pull output crossover distortion.. Or maybe it wont affect anything in the end besides the noise floor and making it a bit brighter. I don't want to provoke the whole resistor and cap taste war but just a thought..
I've decided to take a crack at building a sears silvertone 1484, mostly turret boarded. Hopefully I can pull this off. I already have the mercury magnetics transformers and choke and now im ordering parts on mouser. Wish me luck, this will probably take a while since I'll be piecing it together over time to decrease the burn in my wallet.
The first road block I've hit is I dont know what to use for c26, c27, c28, and c29. They are near the power transformer on the schemo. maybe the schemo is designating 100uF and 150V? I'm starting to think thats what it means..
http://harmony.demont.net/documents/schematics/amps/silvertone_1484.pdf
I'm wondering since the original used 20% tolerance carbon comp resistors if using 1% metal film will take away from the crappy/awesome explodiness this thing does when you crank it. I think there might be some beauty in the push pull output crossover distortion.. Or maybe it wont affect anything in the end besides the noise floor and making it a bit brighter. I don't want to provoke the whole resistor and cap taste war but just a thought..