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JCM 800 Model 2205 voltage chart
« on: June 04, 2020, 06:57:28 pm »
Hello all, Im looking for a voltage chart or a schematic with voltages for the above amp. Can`t find anything on google. This amp has the 5 12ax7`s. Thank you in advance for any help.

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Re: JCM 800 Model 2205 voltage chart
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2020, 07:08:16 pm »
Hoffman has the schematic but no voltages.
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Re: JCM 800 Model 2205 voltage chart
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2020, 07:49:37 pm »
Yeah, I know, whats the big secret? Every where I look no voltages on the schematic. My concern is the plate and cathode voltages on V-1 B pin 6 plate and pin 8 cathode. My readings are 60vdc on the plate and .5 vdc on the cathode. Can that be right? The amp seems to play OK.

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Re: JCM 800 Model 2205 voltage chart
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2020, 08:27:59 pm »
At 6:56 in this video he gives the poweramp voltages and maybe if you contact him he'll have the preamp voltages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i8BYwjIxOM
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Re: JCM 800 Model 2205 voltage chart
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2020, 08:46:48 pm »

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Re: JCM 800 Model 2205 voltage chart
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2020, 09:13:06 pm »
Yeah, I know, whats the big secret? Every where I look no voltages on the schematic. My concern is the plate and cathode voltages on V-1 B pin 6 plate and pin 8 cathode. My readings are 60vdc on the plate and .5 vdc on the cathode. Can that be right? The amp seems to play OK.
Plate voltage will be low with a 470K plate resistor. And there's a diode across the cathode resistor that will prevent the cathode from exceeding .6V. I'd say everything is as should be.
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Re: JCM 800 Model 2205 voltage chart
« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2020, 11:45:54 am »
Thanks for replies Steve and SG. I found a post from SG`s links where  someone else had voltages similar to what I got. Like Steve says everything is as  should be. Thanks again.

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Re: JCM 800 Model 2205 voltage chart
« Reply #7 on: June 05, 2020, 02:36:46 pm »
Look at reply #11 here:
https://music-electronics-forum.com/showthread.php?t=38597
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Re: JCM 800 Model 2205 voltage chart
« Reply #8 on: June 05, 2020, 04:26:20 pm »
On that thread I scrolled all the way down and found another tread (Appleousa) that is where someone had posted voltages for V1b pin 6 & 3.

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Re: JCM 800 Model 2205 voltage chart
« Reply #9 on: June 05, 2020, 07:29:31 pm »
I found some chicken-scratched voltages for a 2210 that I gutted some twenty years ago.  Same preamp as 2205.  I have a stock 2205, but not here at home and I'm not fixing to go down to the studio anytime soon. 

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Re: JCM 800 Model 2205 voltage chart
« Reply #10 on: June 05, 2020, 07:36:28 pm »
Not quite the same. Your chicken didn't use a 470K plate load and has no diode on the cathode. Makes a big diff in voltages.
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Re: JCM 800 Model 2205 voltage chart
« Reply #11 on: June 05, 2020, 08:56:02 pm »
Not quite the same. Your chicken didn't use a 470K plate load and has no diode on the cathode. Makes a big diff in voltages.

My chicken didn't label the stages, but it did have them point in different directions.  83V on the plate and 0.52V on the cathode. 

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Re: JCM 800 Model 2205 voltage chart
« Reply #12 on: June 05, 2020, 09:10:59 pm »
Oops! I jumped on the wrong tube.
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Re: JCM 800 Model 2205 voltage chart
« Reply #13 on: June 06, 2020, 09:58:40 am »
Thanks 2deaf, much appreciated. I will print that and keep it in my records.

 


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