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Can someone shed some light on this... I would like to put a line level HP filter in front of my power amp, which uses an LL1676 as a SE to PP input transformer. The LL1676 goes directly to the grid of the driver tube for the amp, and is not paralleled by any resistance. The output of the preamp is about 2k. I'd like to put a high pass filter on the input to restrict frequencies below a certian level, say 150 hz. I know how to do this if the input of the power amp is a resistor, but what complications will there be if it is a transformer?
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I think that it is a good idea to use a resistor from each grid to ground in the secondary of the LL1676 to define the input impedance for the prior stage and to aid the transformer by providing a tube-invariant termination. This also allows you a straightforward calculation for your high pass filter.
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Thanks Kevin. So if I put say, a 100K from each grid to ground, then I would use 100K as the input figure, or would it be 100k || 100k = 50k? Thanks!
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If the LL1676 is wired 2:1+1, then the overall turns ratio is unity, so the input impedance with two series connected ( grid-to-grid) 100K resistors is 200K. However, I would be inclined to use 2 x 50K, because lower resistance terminates the transformer better.
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