Quick Quiz

[d_rom]

Here's a quick quiz:
What is the rectangular symbol near the AC input that is labled "500mA"?
THanks for the help-
-dan

[Marcos - Munky]

A fuse?

[d_rom]

That's what I originally thought, but it turns out that S1 is the line fuse...
...?

[Erich F]

Marcos is right. S-1 is a switch.

[Marcos - Munky]

Yeah, the S1 is a switch that turns the power on and off. I think you thinked that is a fuse because of the values, the switches have values too, just pick a simple DPST or SPST toggle switch and take a look.

[freebird1127]

I think you're all wrong.  It's obviously a 500mA Transcievaductificator.   :twisted:

[gez]

I think you're all wrong.  It's obviously a 500mA Transcievaductificator.   :twisted:

Nah...they stopped making those years ago!

[jrc4558]

Nah...they stopped making those years ago!


HOWEVER!!!

Fulltone offers an exact replacement, handwound, leakage cheked and individualy measured for the best performance and they are mere $325.00 per piece!!!

Sorry, just felt natural.

[Hal]

Nah...they stopped making those years ago!

I think you can get some NOS from smallbear

[Peter Snowberg]

You can also find units on the surplus market that were made in Hungary during the cold war. Filament life is lower, but they test good for microphonics, and trasfrobnication is decent. They sound much better than rock cod without the pronounced midrange of a rainbow trout.

[gez]

I'm sorry Peter, Transfrobnication may be decent, but I've heard reports that only one in three Hungarian units are ok, the rest have poor transtaggeration ratios.  It just goes to show...there's nothing like the originals!

[freebird1127]

I'm sorry Peter, Transfrobnication may be decent, but I've heard reports that only one in three Hungarian units are ok, the rest have poor transtaggeration ratios.  It just goes to show...there's nothing like the originals!

Indeed you're right, gez.  This was due to resentment on behalf of the transtaggeration ratio-calculating personnel, due to low pay/compensation (ie: food stamps... or lack thereof...) during the war.  As you may or may not know, a union between the transtaggeration workers and the royal philharmonic frobnicatorchestra was formed shortly after the war, and as a result, units made during the war are of "compromised" value, and units made thereafter are... not as compromised.

PS>>> My entire family is Hungarian.  Serious.  Tutsz Magyarul?

[gez]

[during the war.  As you may or may not know, a union between the transtaggeration workers and the royal philharmonic frobnicatorchestra was formed shortly after the war, and as a result, units made during the war are of "compromised" value, and units made thereafter are... not as compromised.

I hate to get picky, but post-war units are still flawed due to the exclusion of the Phaseographers from the Union.  If only they’d have given in to their beetroot demands this whole sorry episode would have had a very different outcome…sigh.

[Manolo Dudes]

Gruv-Toobs offer 'em hand selected. Worth a try.

[ErikMiller]

I thought I saw a schematic for a test fixture at R.G. Keen's "Technology of the Theo's Stand-alone Solid State Relay" page.

[Peter Snowberg]

the royal philharmonic frobnicatorchestra

That sounds like a great pedal! A ring modulator into several reverbs and chorus' in parallel.

There is a rumor that the original Soviet bloc transcievaductificator tooling is sitting in a warehouse in Budapest. Several years ago the owner was looking to trade it for two 40 foot shipping containers full of "Mr. T" Chia Pets.  I pitty the foo that passed up that deal.


Famous Hungarian John von Neumann next to a first generation transcievaductificator burn-in station.