23-09-2021, 09:53 AM
(22-09-2021, 03:16 PM)ppppenguin Wrote: The RM entry says this player uses an ECL82. If this is correct, the heater is unlikely to come from a tap on the motor. Of course the RM entry could be wrong. If the valve is actually a UCL82 then its heater is probably from a tap on the motor.I agree with both of those points. They did have motors for HT on transistor amps. I have one. Also live chassis!
In any case the player could easily be live chassis (strictly speaking chassis connected directly to one side of mains) and thus hazardous if you don't understand what you're doing.
All the simple valve record players I've seen use U series, so I did wonder at the ECL82 as a transformer added a lot of cost. Though some radios used HT from the mains and an autotransformer for the heaters.
