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Re: Star Grounding

12/20/2003 4:54 AM
bnwitt	Re: Star Grounding I have probably built 18 or 20 of these amps and I have found that one star ground works fine as well as two star grounds. I think it is a good idea to star ground the power cord green, the trannie HT center tap, the power tube cathode ground and the 6.3 volt heater center tap (or the 2 100 ohm resistor atificial ground)to one point. Then ground all the preamp grounds to a second star ground.

12/20/2003 4:54 AM

bnwitt

Re: Star Grounding

I have probably built 18 or 20 of these amps and I have found that one star ground works fine as well as two star grounds. I think it is a good idea to star ground the power cord green, the trannie HT center tap, the power tube cathode ground and the 6.3 volt heater center tap (or the 2 100 ohm resistor atificial ground)to one point. Then ground all the preamp grounds to a second star ground.

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Bruce /Mission Amps For proper UL type grounding, the p... -- 12/20/2003 3:48 PM