KT 150 Eiclone Finally Finished !!! YeHa

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KT 150 Eiclone Finally Finished !!! YeHa

Postby hilldweller » Sat Sep 20, 2014 1:26 pm

Well guys and gals, its finally done! I am running for the first time so I have KT 120 tubes installed for now. I want to make sure everything is ok and stable before I put in the KT 150 tubes.

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Re: KT 150 Eiclone Finally Finished !!! YeHa

Postby EWBrown » Sun Sep 21, 2014 1:31 pm

Very nice! (love) [:) (y)

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Re: KT 150 Eiclone Finally Finished !!! YeHa

Postby Shannon Parks » Wed Sep 24, 2014 5:08 pm

Nice work! What speakers are you driving with them?

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Re: KT 150 Eiclone Finally Finished !!! YeHa

Postby hilldweller » Wed Sep 24, 2014 7:18 pm

Shannon Parks wrote:Nice work! What speakers are you driving with them?

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Re: KT 150 Eiclone Finally Finished !!! YeHa

Postby justinsweber » Wed Jan 28, 2015 4:03 pm

Stupid question...
Is there any place where the modifications that are needed to the Eiclone to exploit KT120/KT150s are documents? I couldnt find.
Ive built 4 Eiclones and love the amps... but I dont think I have enough fill current to light them up and wonder what the transfer used is spec'd at?

Thanks in advance.
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Re: KT 150 Eiclone Finally Finished !!! YeHa

Postby Shannon Parks » Thu Jan 29, 2015 3:55 pm

justinsweber wrote:Stupid question...
Is there any place where the modifications that are needed to the Eiclone to exploit KT120/KT150s are documents? I couldnt find.
Ive built 4 Eiclones and love the amps... but I dont think I have enough fill current to light them up and wonder what the transfer used is spec'd at?

Thanks in advance.


Justin, there's just the parts list mod on page 7 of the manual. Make those changes and use the scary 900VCT Edcor mentioned elsewhere on these threads with the 100W OPTs. Bias at 75% idle. I don't really support or promote it though, out of liability concerns.

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Re: KT 150 Eiclone Finally Finished !!! YeHa

Postby hilldweller » Thu Jan 29, 2015 5:27 pm

Shannon Parks wrote:
justinsweber wrote:Stupid question...
Is there any place where the modifications that are needed to the Eiclone to exploit KT120/KT150s are documents? I couldnt find.
Ive built 4 Eiclones and love the amps... but I dont think I have enough fill current to light them up and wonder what the transfer used is spec'd at?

Thanks in advance.


Justin, there's just the parts list mod on page 7 of the manual. Make those changes and use the scary 900VCT Edcor mentioned elsewhere on these threads with the 100W OPTs. Bias at 75% idle. I don't really support or promote it though, out of liability concerns.

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Mine is working flawlessly with no issues what so ever. Have about 180 hours on it. (y)
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Re: KT 150 Eiclone Finally Finished !!! YeHa

Postby hilldweller » Thu Jan 29, 2015 5:30 pm

justinsweber wrote:Stupid question...
Is there any place where the modifications that are needed to the Eiclone to exploit KT120/KT150s are documents? I couldnt find.
Ive built 4 Eiclones and love the amps... but I dont think I have enough fill current to light them up and wonder what the transfer used is spec'd at?

Thanks in advance.

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https://www.edcorusa.com/xpwr263

https://www.edcorusa.com/cxppseries#/specFilters=7m!#-!37&pageSize=25&orderBy=0&pageNumber=1
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Re: KT 150 Eiclone Finally Finished !!! YeHa

Postby Geek » Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:15 pm

Very classy. Well done! [:)
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Re: KT 150 Eiclone Finally Finished !!! YeHa

Postby justinsweber » Tue Feb 03, 2015 1:29 pm

Thank you for the info... few more questions.
Looking at the parts list.
Power transformer for a 120V, 60Hz. line to 900V (450-0-450) at 300mA and 6.3V at 6A.
Ouput transformer 100watt with a 6.6K input impedance and a 4ohm and 8ohm output

Questions:
1. A KT-120 power tubes uses 1.9amps per tube for fil (2x), 12AX7 is 150ma, 6SN7 is 300ma... so ~ 4.25amps is a 6amp 6.3 winding enough... isnt the general thinking we should double the current needs; meaning 8.5amp 6.3 winding?
2. 2 KT120s are biased at 65-70ma per tube? What would KT150s be biased at. I bias my KT88 at ~55ma per tube. The 70% rule always confuses me.
3. KT150s would yield more power or just last longer?
4. WHy 6.6K and not 5K or 4.3K. I thought larger power tubes perfer lower impedances? Im runing my stock Eiclone with 4.3K primarys and really love the sound.
5. Why no choke?

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Re: KT 150 Eiclone Finally Finished !!! YeHa

Postby hilldweller » Tue Feb 03, 2015 5:37 pm

justinsweber wrote:Thank you for the info... few more questions.
Looking at the parts list.
Power transformer for a 120V, 60Hz. line to 900V (450-0-450) at 300mA and 6.3V at 6A.
Ouput transformer 100watt with a 6.6K input impedance and a 4ohm and 8ohm output

Questions:
1. A KT-120 power tubes uses 1.9amps per tube for fil (2x), 12AX7 is 150ma, 6SN7 is 300ma... so ~ 4.25amps is a 6amp 6.3 winding enough... isnt the general thinking we should double the current needs; meaning 8.5amp 6.3 winding?
2. 2 KT120s are biased at 65-70ma per tube? What would KT150s be biased at. I bias my KT88 at ~55ma per tube. The 70% rule always confuses me.
3. KT150s would yield more power or just last longer?
4. WHy 6.6K and not 5K or 4.3K. I thought larger power tubes perfer lower impedances? Im runing my stock Eiclone with 4.3K primarys and really love the sound.
5. Why no choke?

Thanks,
I used chokes, Higher rated power supply caps 450v ea,, 3 amp diodes in series, cl-80 thermistors for higher current rating, 3 amp fuses, and other changes. My amp works flawlessly and I love it.

Here are the chokes and output trans I used.
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1 CXPP100-MS-4.2K $98.51 2 $197.02
2 XC87-2H-300mA $30.84 2 $61.68


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Re: KT 150 Eiclone Finally Finished !!! YeHa

Postby hilldweller » Tue Feb 03, 2015 5:39 pm

justinsweber wrote:Thank you for the info... few more questions.
Looking at the parts list.
Power transformer for a 120V, 60Hz. line to 900V (450-0-450) at 300mA and 6.3V at 6A.
Ouput transformer 100watt with a 6.6K input impedance and a 4ohm and 8ohm output

Questions:
1. A KT-120 power tubes uses 1.9amps per tube for fil (2x), 12AX7 is 150ma, 6SN7 is 300ma... so ~ 4.25amps is a 6amp 6.3 winding enough... isnt the general thinking we should double the current needs; meaning 8.5amp 6.3 winding?
2. 2 KT120s are biased at 65-70ma per tube? What would KT150s be biased at. I bias my KT88 at ~55ma per tube. The 70% rule always confuses me.
3. KT150s would yield more power or just last longer?
4. WHy 6.6K and not 5K or 4.3K. I thought larger power tubes perfer lower impedances? Im runing my stock Eiclone with 4.3K primarys and really love the sound.
5. Why no choke?

Thanks,
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