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Amp Stuff => Tube Amp Building - Tweaks - Repairs => Topic started by: Colas LeGrippa on October 27, 2011, 09:38:54 pm

Title: paralleled SE output tubes
Post by: Colas LeGrippa on October 27, 2011, 09:38:54 pm

this question certainly has been asked rather twice than once: in a SE amp, adding a power tube in parallel will ask for doubling or dividing the speaker load by two ? and what is the math behind the answer ? ( 2 * x = 2x   :l2: )

thanks

Colas

Title: Re: paralleled SE output tubes
Post by: tubeswell on October 27, 2011, 11:46:48 pm

2 x parallel tubes = 1/2 the load resistance of 1 tube (all other things like; tube type, bias voltage, plate voltage and plate current per tube etc being equal)

Title: Re: paralleled SE output tubes
Post by: Colas LeGrippa on October 28, 2011, 07:28:50 am

As I can see, in calculating the reflected load impedance, we consider output tubes only as being resistors.. putting two resistors in parallel will divide the total load by 2.  I was not quite sure if this formula would apply to tubes too. I have never considered the tolerances of any kind in building amps, I was going rather with my ears. And it was giving pretty much good results, I must admit. But now that I have experienced weird things like getting much more power out of an EL84 than a 6L6 ( weird because a certain lack of overall understanding),  I just want to do things differently in order to avoid, by example, spending a week on a troubleshooting that appeared to be just a defective a/c cord................... :cussing:

Regards

Colas

Title: Re: paralleled SE output tubes
Post by: stratele52 on October 29, 2011, 10:52:27 am

Yes Colas Legrippa, tubes are "like" resistor. It is easy to have information on push pull amp. Two tubes push pull need a primary impedance output transformer twice  than  the four output tubes transformer.