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Doggie619
Junior Member
Username: Doggie619
Post Number: 31
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Monday, October 16, 2006 - 8:14 am: | 
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a freind has a eagle 500 amp and has bad tubes in it. is it worth getting the tubes or is he better off spending the money on a newer amp.Any info on these amps would be good it takes a 20LF6 tube and has 7 of them so is it worth it. |
Kid_vicious
Senior Member
Username: Kid_vicious
Post Number: 2157
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 12:27 am: |
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i have one of those amps. i dont use it because of the price of the tubes. one day i will sell it or convert it to different tubes, but for now, it sits.
the cheapest price you are going to find for these tubes is about 40-50 dollars a piece.
with 7 of them, you are up to 350 dollars for a thirty year old amp that was not that well designed in the first place.
my advice would be to take the 350 and buy a KLV550 or something comparable.
you can get a good transistor amp and a power supply for that money.
oh, and i tried the 26LX6 that is listed as a sub.
i did not have good luck with them. they all blew.
good luck,
matt |
Sonny
Intermediate Member
Username: Sonny
Post Number: 111
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, October 19, 2006 - 9:10 pm: |
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Dog, Kid Vicious has good advise, even though I myself am running a referburbished Siltronix LA 550 it takes 5 8950's and they run around $100.00 each good luck |
Big_mikes
New member
Username: Big_mikes
Post Number: 4
Registered: 9-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, December 09, 2007 - 3:23 am: |
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change to use 6lf6 tubes you have to ad a filimint tranformer it will work great have done many times
they call me hippie or big mike |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 4552
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, December 09, 2007 - 11:14 am: |
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Sad that the tubes cost more than the entire amp ..... Old amps using sweep tubes can be a nightmare.
Thats why I went solid state on all bands but will be adding a 4-811 tube amp this comming year. Back years ago all my amps were TUBE .... but they got so expensive to replace.
My Mirage 2 meter amp bit the dust and will need to go back I realy don't know why or what happened and it's a QULGE inside ....
Some remember my 1979 caddy with a 95 inch wip and the home built amp THAT 10 meter fm amp runs 4 transistors simular to the boomer 400 ..... I get 325 watts FM on .....29.600 MORE than enough to work the world which I did back about 8 years ago.
On 6 since 66
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