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In Reply to: RE: dynaclone and triode not offering transformers posted by Tre' on September 06, 2021 at 07:43:39
re "John Atwood tested the Z565 at 9.5K."
According to the usual sources, it's 8K. I see that he also says the A470 is 5.6K ohms; the usual sources say 4.3K. I have some doubts about these measurements...
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I've measured most of the Dynaco transformers with a Wayne-Kerr impedance analyzer- impedance varies with secondary used, I used 8 Ohms. At 1 KHz:
A410: 9400
A420: 7200
A430: 4700
A470: 5150
Z565: 8300
Z565-48 Clone: 8250
These include winding resistance as they're measured loaded. All will be lower if measured by voltage ratio (unloaded).
I have a pair of "A470"s, bought from Triode more than 20 years ago; I just now measured the turns ratios and got:
4 ohm tap: 4190 ohms anode-anode
8 ohm tap: 4676 --- " ---
16 ohm tap: 4306 --- " ---
Primary end-end DC resistance about 200 ohms, so a reasonable guess is to add 400 ohms for a loaded transformer (the secondary DCR is more difficult to measure so I didn't). That gives 5076 ohms on the 8-ohm tap, consistent with your 5150 measurement.
So it looks like the 4300 ohm spec is for the turns ratio, not the actual tube load impedance. And the 8 ohm tap is slightly different from the others.
People often refer to this body of work as though it were some sort of Bible for transformers. I have always suspected it to be seriously flawed.
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Yep. Dave Gillespie, author of the EFB mod for the SCA-35 and ST-35 (which both use the Z-565) wrote, "The Z-565 is an 8K primary transformer..."
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