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Title: Ampeg B-15N - Documentation Link
Post by: kagliostro on June 01, 2017, 05:05:35 am
For those who can have interest on the B-15N Ampeg a link that I've find and that contains a lot of good info

https://www.talkbass.com/wiki/technical-amplifier/ (https://www.talkbass.com/wiki/technical-amplifier/)

Franco
Title: Re: Ampeg B-15N - Documentation Link
Post by: shooter on June 01, 2017, 09:40:57 am
nice find!  I see you don't sleep well either :laugh:
Title: Re: Ampeg B-15N - Documentation Link
Post by: kagliostro on June 01, 2017, 11:20:04 am
Ciao

May be it was not so early in the morning, here we are near Greenwich meridian  :wink: 


add 7 hours to the time you see on the forum  :smiley:

Franco
Title: Re: Ampeg B-15N - Documentation Link
Post by: DummyLoad on June 01, 2017, 11:49:37 am
For those who can have interest on the B-15N Ampeg a link that I've find and that contains a lot of good info

https://www.talkbass.com/wiki/technical-amplifier/ (https://www.talkbass.com/wiki/technical-amplifier/)

Franco


cool! thanks for sharing that K!

building another all octal-socket amp is in the forecast. i'd probably go with SS recto.


--pete
Title: Re: Ampeg B-15N - Documentation Link
Post by: ManisMan on June 12, 2017, 06:58:27 pm
Question on fixed bias in that documentation. How does the biasing circuit work to provide a negative voltage to the grids?

Is it because you have both + and neg coming out of the secondary taps?
Title: Re: Ampeg B-15N - Documentation Link
Post by: pompeiisneaks on June 12, 2017, 07:07:41 pm
Unless I'm looking at the wrong schematic, it's not fixed bias, it's cathode biased no?

~Phil
Title: Re: Ampeg B-15N - Documentation Link
Post by: ManisMan on June 12, 2017, 07:10:58 pm
https://www.talkbass.com/wiki/technical-amplifier/#24-converting-a-b-15n-from-cathode-bias-to-fixed-bias (https://www.talkbass.com/wiki/technical-amplifier/#24-converting-a-b-15n-from-cathode-bias-to-fixed-bias)

Title: Re: Ampeg B-15N - Documentation Link
Post by: sluckey on June 12, 2017, 07:13:01 pm
The early ones were cathode biased. Later ones were fixed bias. Keep scrolling down the page and you will see.

It's just a very simple half wave rectifier. Nothing special. Hundreds of amps use that same circuit.
Title: Re: Ampeg B-15N - Documentation Link
Post by: pompeiisneaks on June 13, 2017, 12:00:34 pm
Oh thanks mantisman and sluckey, that makes more sense :)  Yup that's a bias circuit I've seen over and over in my limited experience too.

~Phil