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Title: Possible to make the 5x3 like a 5e3 ?? Post by: BluesFuzzer on September 04, 2009, 04:44:14 PM If i buy a 5x3 and finds out that 20-30watts is to loud... will a tube change (to 6v6) bring down the volume and make it more like 15watts or do i have to change to a smaller OT and PT first and then change the tubes??
??? Title: Re: Possible to make the 5x3 like a 5e3 ?? Post by: wyatt on September 04, 2009, 05:28:07 PM Can't see why not.
Hard to say about the PT without knowing the plate voltages being used. But a switch to a 5Y3 rectifier should lower voltages enough to use *at least* JJ 6V6's, which can handle higher voltages, and it may lower voltages enough for more traditional 6V6GT offerings. And the OT will need impedance changes with a switch to 6V6GT's. It uses a multi-tap transformer, which makes this easy. If you think you'll be switching between 6L6GC's and 6V6GT's, then you may want to connect the 4-ohm tap instead of the 16-ohm tap. The 4-ohm tap will be 4 ohms when using 6L6GC's, and it will be 8 ohms when using 6V6GT's. The 8-ohm tap will be 8 ohms when using 6L6GC's, and it will be 16 ohms when using 6V6GT's. The 16-ohm tap will be 16 ohms when using 6L6GC's, and it will be useless when using 6V6GT's. Can you get it down to the stock 12-watt output of a 5E3, I dunno, I would need to know the voltages. |