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Offline Raybob

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Hoffman AB763 [47K resistor to ground?]
« on: December 27, 2010, 04:44:24 am »
I'm building a Hoffman style AB763 board with brown vibroverb tremolo and see a resistor that I'm wondering why it's there.  This is the 47K resistor from preamp ground to the end of the .1 cap from pin 6 of v4 going to the 220K mixing resistor.  What exactly, is the purpose of the 47K resistor?

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Re: Hoffman AB763 [47K resistor to ground?]
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2010, 07:27:17 am »
It replaces the missing 50K Intensity pot in the orig AB763 circuit.
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Re: Hoffman AB763 [47K resistor to ground?]
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2010, 10:13:05 am »
That resistor (or Intensity pot in the stock AB763 circuit) reduces the signal level hitting the phase inverter.  Some guys have put it on a switch to go from stock to higher gain.  YMMV.

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