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Offline TIMBO

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An interesting twist
« on: December 23, 2015, 04:09:32 am »
Hi guys, This has tweaked my interest............
http://www.ozvalveamps.org/maxim/maxim_chassis_undersk.jpg

Thinking that there is a bit of Marshall Major in its roots and I have some hardware looking for a build.
There is little info with this amp, so there may be a similar circuit floating around out in cyber schematic land.

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Re: An interesting twist
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2015, 05:31:51 am »
I was expecting a Chubby Checker story!   :icon_biggrin:
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Re: An interesting twist
« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2015, 03:08:56 pm »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHGXwQeUk7M

I can't say I have had the pleasure of doing this dance but my wife danced with him in the early 80's

I was able to jag a copy of the Maxim amp, this is a bit different to the one featured on Ozvalves.


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Re: An interesting twist
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2015, 10:49:49 am »
Never saw a tremolo circuit that diddled a pentode's screen grid before but why not?

That's an interesting circuit.

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Re: An interesting twist
« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2015, 01:08:04 am »
Ciao TIMBO

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I can't say I have had the pleasure of doing this dance .....

I've never been a great or passionate dancer, but I had that pleasure  :smiley:


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Fresh_Start if you want to see something quite odd ....



our australian cousins are very inventive   :thumbsup: :icon_biggrin:

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TIMBO I see something that I don't understand on the schematic you posted, the junction between channel 1 and 2 done after the 100k resistors and before the 330p and .047uf caps (???)

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Re: An interesting twist
« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2015, 03:27:36 am »
Hi K,
I think the idea behind that is the original amp http://rickveneer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Maxim-3S.jpg has two inputs
One input would have a three position rotary sw. that would give you HI/LO/BOTH on the tremolo channel and the other input for the other channel

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Re: An interesting twist
« Reply #6 on: December 27, 2015, 07:45:18 am »
I see, that has sense

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Re: An interesting twist
« Reply #7 on: December 27, 2015, 02:44:15 pm »
Hi K, I'm wrong!!!!!
That rotary sw is for the bright caps on the volume pot.
I think it's just a way to have a HI/LO input.  :icon_biggrin:

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Re: An interesting twist
« Reply #8 on: December 27, 2015, 02:52:47 pm »
Mmmmmm ????? ....  :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:


Yes, the jumper (on the schematic) is only to connect the signal of each input to both the Tone Controls


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