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In Reply to: RE: Frequency, etc posted by Lew on March 23, 2021 at 13:14:12
You could try a soft recovery diode, but I would be inclined to focus on the RC time constant, trying different values for C202 and C204 or the varistor RV201 and RV202. Regarding R201/R203, I had missed that. That is a good question why one is 10K the other 22K. I agree with you, I would experiment with changing those. I would guess that it was simply a mistake on the schematic, someone meant to change them both to the same value, and only one was changed. But geez I have seen stranger things.
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As you say, I have been assuming that the value shown for R201 (10K) was in error on the schematic. Especially since on both of my actual amplifiers, R201 = R203 = 22K, with the attendant C202 = C204 = 470pF. On the 1977 schematic, C202 and C204 are 290pF. So they were clearly tinkering with that part of the circuit.
1977: uses 47K and 290pF, both sides
1978: uses 22K and 470pF, both sides (assuming 1978 schematic is in error)
It looks like the other thing they changed were resistors 206 - 210, which will affect amplifier loading and the feedback path. Are these resistors 1.0M or 2.2M in your amplifiers? Have you experimented with different values for these resistors?
2.2M in all positions. Still, I got crazy and replaced 4 out of 6 on the oscillating amplifier, to no avail.
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