Maximum voltage for the 6L6 is 360 volts. Fot the 1614, it is 500 volts. That is why the ranger, which uses 500 volts or a bit more uses the 1614 instead of the cheaper 6L6. The 1614 is RF rated as a transmitting tube while the 1614 is not. A 6L6GC is a pretty close relative.. My $0.02..Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "W5OMR/Geoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of AM Radio" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 8:04 AM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] 6BG6 ad
> Jim candela wrote: > > >Hmmm, Well it seems like the ads claim is true, verified by Mahlon, K4OQ. In > >that case I reiterate, this is "one heck of a deal". Try pricing the 6L6GC > >from any source NOS or new, and compare. How many AM rigs use the 6L6 as > >modulators? > > > >Johnson Ranger (is this correct?) > >1614 > >7027 > > > >How many others? > > > Yogie/KC5MIP had a Temco that used (4) 6L6's in the Modulator stage. I want to say it had a pair of 807's in the final, but I don't remember, exactly. > > > Ronnie/K5WLT built a modulator for his Knight Kit T-50, just after he > graduated up from being a Johnny Novice, to General. That's an > interesting modulator, in that it uses a pair of 6L6's and was built > from a Popular Elextronics magazine article, from back in the > mid-to-late 50's. One of those 6L6's is apparently slightly > microphonic. He can take the plastic handle of a screwdriver, hit the > metal 6L6 and the tube 'rings' like a bell. Ronnie has had so much fun > with that rig, running a single 807, modulated by a pair of 6L6's... and > has worked all over the country with it. > > I, myself, have plugged in 6L6's into the Ranger, and Rager II I had, > back before I got the titanic. > > I've got an old audio amp here, that I got from John/W5MEU that runs > either a pair, or 4, in p-p paralell. > > 6L6's are populare everywhere. And, while the engineers mght have > decided to use either 1614's in the Rangers, or 7027's in the Ranger > II's, I couldn't tell a nickles worth of difference in the rigs that I > had, between those tubes, and the 6L6. > > Just my .02c. > > Do I get change? ;-) > > -- > 73 = Best Regards, > -Geoff/W5OMR > > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > AMfone Website: http://www.amfone.net > AM List Admin: Brian Sherrod/w5ami, Paul Courson/wa3vjb >
