Fixed and self bias

[shooter]

I should know this but don’t! 
You start with fixed biased amp, and 1ohm Rk for current calcs.

now I up Rk to 10 ohms cuz I want to made things hard, and re-bias the fixed side – if needed.

If I keep uppin Rk n tweaking fixed, can I get to a point where even and odd harmonics “balance”, unintended consequences, or am I just wasting gray matter n cloud space 

 

[PRR]

It's complicated. And maybe not worth much.

Quit picking your brain and apply the soldering iron.

[shooter]

It's complicated.

 
ya, it's stuck in an endless loop!  I'm doing woodworking outdoors so my brain just shuts down 

[jjasilli]

Maybe that's what Fender hoped when they went from BF to SF.


Anyway 10R can act as fuse & bias sense.

[shooter]

10R can act

That's what got the whole mess in my brain started, Willabe's KT88 conversion.  The PA tubes use 10r guessing as the "correct" value for the meter's, Then........... 
I have a small understanding of amp history, and a quick search only yielded spy vs spy instead of working together.

I'll be getting the soldering gun out soon, gotta wire up lights for my ghetto camper II 

[PRR]

Few power tubes have Gm as low as 1/50r, so a "significant" resistor will be 100 Ohms up.

10 Ohms was standard when good meters read 1.5V on the lowest range. 50mA was 0.5V or 1/3rd-scale, you can read that. With 1 Ohm it is 0.050V, hard to squint on a 1.5V scale. But sweet on DVMs where the natural input is 199mV.