I know this is something that I'm sure has come up before! I have a Pas that I got on the bay. It was incomplete. I just installed the Erhard Audio PS board. I've used this board before without any problems. The selector switch it came with had been changed along with the Phono board. I'm trying to find where this hum/buzz is coming from! All voltages are good. Inputs grounds are good. Single ground wire going to each board from PS board. PS board and red/yellow trans wire is grounded to chassis. I tried shorting points 1, 2 and 9 on PC5. The noise remained. On pin 4 I should have less than 1 volt, I have 9 on both tubes. Would appreciate any input!
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Pas Hum/Buzz
peterh- Posts : 1869
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Location : gothenburg, sweden
rudes wrote:I know this is something that I'm sure has come up before! I have a Pas that I got on the bay. It was incomplete. I just installed the Erhard Audio PS board. I've used this board before without any problems. The selector switch it came with had been changed along with the Phono board. I'm trying to find where this hum/buzz is coming from! All voltages are good. Inputs grounds are good. Single ground wire going to each board from PS board. PS board and red/yellow trans wire is grounded to chassis. I tried shorting points 1, 2 and 9 on PC5. The noise remained. On pin 4 I should have less than 1 volt, I have 9 on both tubes. Would appreciate any input!
Some measurments on a pair of dynacoPAS:
selecting phono, with inputs shorted and volume fully up will typically have 2.7mV rms at each channel. Noise dominating hum not visibel on scope. All tonecontrols in middle balance centered.
With volume at zero ( which also is high level input with shorted input) the total
output is app. 700uV
This is measured on 2 pas3x both using triodes powerboard, one with 12x4 the other
with 2 un4007 rectifiers.
All done with all covers mounted.
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