Radio Theory and design

Friday, July 24, 2020

The cap divider tube amp performance

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Last night I put a headphone on the amp and fed it with a antenna through a diode I received signals. Without the diode all is quite. For t...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

Ground to ground???

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Joe had a dead battery and Tom offered to help. When they connected the jumper cable one had a bad end and it fell off. Joe says "Oh m...

The schematic for the amp using the cap divider to power the tube heater

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The as built schematic except one resistor. I put a 470 Ohm resistor in series with the diode to avoid inrush on power up. I ran the ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Cap divider part 3 proof of concept

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DIT produced a winner with the Cap Divider. I put it on a breadboard and the results were impressive. The datasheet offered this circui...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

The cap divider revisted part 2

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I took 6 .5ufd caps in parallel to replace the 5ufd cap and bingo! 12.56 volts feeding the heater. The tube has a nice warm cherry glow. ...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

The cap divider revisted

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The DIT did good with the capacitive  divider. It had over 400 views and counting. I pieced together a little board with one powering a t...
Thursday, July 2, 2020

Earbud driver using a mosfet output stage

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It is not pretty but it sings. I put a drop of glue where the part was located on the schematic and attached the parts. Then it was just ...
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