Repair of Dynacord KV10 amplifier 1959th

The amplifier came to the workshop with the following error message! "It has not been connected, but the seller said that one of the capacitors were defective".

I found a schematic.

The amplifier came on the workbench, the first thing that jumped in his eyes was a filter capacitor mounted with tape.

It proved to be a substitute for the 2 cathode capacitors acc. the diagram should be 50 uF 30 Volts.

The capacitor, mounted with tape, was 50uF + 50uF 350 volts and 12uF 16 volts.

A measurement of resistors, showed that the two cathode resistors as acc. the diagram should be 390 ohm 5 watt,

measured respectively. 1.2 Mohm and 1 Kohm. they had to be replaced.

One half of a 32 + 32 uF 350 volts smoothing capacitor in the power supply was soldered of.

There was bought a replacement and it was soldered in. There was connected to 230 volts, and amplifier played.

A few pictures of in, and the exterior of the amplifier.

A small video with sound check on how the amplifier sounds.

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