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In Reply to: RE: Electro-Voice Regal lll posted by CraigI on January 23, 2017 at 15:47:52
Craig
Solder has tended to go lead-free in recent times. Radio Shack has (or at least they used to) Lead- Free Silver Bearing Solder 96/4 # 64-025 but ti's difficult to work with as the solder joints tend to look "cold" (read: not nice and shiny). So it can make an impatient expert into an amateur. I have a lifetime supply of good old Kester "44" Sn 60 which always gives good results, but I dunno if you can still buy it.
Wire: Monster XP is good, reasonably priced and easily available.
A check with your DMM of the original L-pads may reveal more of the mystery, though you should disconnect them first. A reading between the center lug and one of the other ones should reveal either a very low reading or the maximum value of the L-pad as you turn the knob to the end points. Also look for a resistor added to the L-pad which may affect the circuit impedance. To re-iterate: you stated that the T35B's are marked as 16 Ohms units, but measurements show them to currently be 8 Ohm units. If the L-pads don't match the driver they will actually change the crossover frequency as the knob is turned up or down, and it's difficult to imagine EV designing it this way.
Paul
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PaulI measured both L-Pads. The low readings are 0.2 and 0.7 ohms. The high readings are 104.2 and 103.8 ohms. Both are disconnected.
Craig
Edits: 01/26/17
Measured my new L-Pads 0.1 to 7.5 ohms
Craig
This starts to explain some of the mystery of why the parts values n the original crossover didn't seem to make sense, and the nominally 100 Ohm L-pads seem to account for the missing Ohms to match the parts. As to why they did it that way I can only speculate. In the page of the 70's EV catalog I posted here they were expecting that DIY'ers would use a "building block" approach which would mean starting with a "full range" woofer in a suitable box which would be made. Later you would add a tweeter for some highs. After you had that awhile you would add a midrange horn for "presence". The mid horn and tweeter were presented as add on tone controls.
As you'll be nearing a time when you can compare the new crossover to the old one, it might be time to move this up page to a new thread, as we're stretching the limit of how far we can go to the right down here. Hopefully the speakers sound better!
Paul
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