In Reply to: Forgot to post circuit posted by xaudiomanx on December 28, 2018 at 15:30:05:
I followed the recipe and had the lm337 mounted on the chassis with an insulator and after a couple of weeks it failed. Dunno why. Maybe a voltage spike. It was an amp that i built for an audio buddy so, who knows what went on at his house. Replace it with a cathode resistor and that was ok.
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- I tried that circuit but the SS device failed. - DAK 12/29/1809:15:57 12/29/18 (7)
- RE: I tried that circuit but the SS device failed. - Triode_Kingdom 11:04:14 12/29/18 (0)
- RE: I tried that circuit but the SS device failed. - Caucasian Blackplate 10:56:53 12/29/18 (5)
- It was a very large chassis. - DAK 11:22:07 12/29/18 (4)
- RE: It was a very large chassis. - Caucasian Blackplate 11:51:57 12/29/18 (3)
- From Gillespie's article: - 1973shovel 13:01:06 12/29/18 (2)
- RE: From Gillespie's article: - Caucasian Blackplate 13:05:37 12/29/18 (1)
- I'll try and get a temperature reading the next time I have the amp in the system - 1973shovel 14:59:52 12/29/18 (0)