by David JM » Thu Nov 25, 2010 9:28 pm
John Beaty, of Blueberry Pie Electronics created an EF86 add-on stage for my 1972 Vox AC30TB.
With his help, I designed and made the small chassis on which he affixed the hardware, including a shock-mount for the valve, and fixings for the small PCB.
He managed to shoehorn it in, onto the preamp chassis, with its own voltages etc., input jack, Bright/Normal switch and volume control, feeding the output into the phase splitter, suitably controlled by the Top Boost control.
It works well, so if there's a circuit diagram for the XD, I'm sure that it wouldn't take him long to work out the circuitry.
I'll ask him to take a look, and "report back".
It'll probably take a couple of weeks.
Cheers for now,
David JM