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Phantom Update
Hey Everyone,
Just wanted to update everyone on this phantom repair. I ordered the 1N34 diodes and they came, I cipped out the old ones that were bad, and checked them again out of circuit and got the same reading, one shorted and the other one open.
I soldered in the two...
I have a D&A Scorpion that even though uses a transistor for the keying circuit instead of a 6aq5, it looks to have the same diodes, well two of them instead of four of them, but anyways I looked up the schematic for the scorpion and it shows those diodes being 1N34 which would be a 65 Volt...
I believe they are diodes...they are clear glass or plastic just like the diodes you'd see in a crystal radio. I don't remember the colors, I will have to go look again. There's four of them, two of them check out okay as diodes and two of them check out bad with one being completly open and the...
Hi Everyone.
I have a 12 tube Phanton 12 6LQ6 tubes and one 6AQ5 keying tube.
It will not Key up, the 6AQ5 tube is fine. However, the multiplier diodes that go between the RF input the the 6AQ5 to trigger the 6AQ5 to kick in the rely is bad. There's four of them, two of the four are good...
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