1625 PP

Photos on construction progress

Possible configurations

Tube characteristics using uTracer

Extracted models: 1625 Triode and 1625 Tetrode (description of the models can be found here and here)

Modeling using LTSpice and the extracted models

Notes on cathode resistors and bypassing in push-pull designs

Experiments with power supply

Examples of measurements at the 8Ohm outputs showing the switching diodes in the power supply, without snubbers on the secondary and with a 10nF+1kOhm snubber, respectively.

without snubber
with snubber

Using slugging 10nF capacitors parallel to UF4007 diodes created more ringing (which agrees with this, saying that fast-switching diodes should not be paralleled with capacitors).

with (red and blue) and without (green and cyan) 4x 10pF caps, parallel to rectifying diodes

A bit more about snubber can be found here. Some extra plots:

Testing the Lead-RC network

Testing the open loop connecting with a RC-lead network for different C, with R=39kOhm. Examples of Left and Right channels in open-loop configuration, and the frequency responses for (blue) no lead-network, (yellow) C=82pf, (green) C=100pf, (red) C=200pf:

with 100pF+39kOhm lead at 2.2kHz
openl loop, red-without 10kOhm grid-stopper, and green – with

THD measurements

no feedback and no input signal (pink), no feedback with input signal (orange), input signal and 16dB feedback (green) [0dB = 1Vrms]

Experiments with coupling caps (open-loop gain)

the coupling cap between the pream and power states is 0.015uf (red), 0.047uf (blue) and 0.1uf (green).

LTSpice model

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Influence of lag-RC network (39kOhm+100pF) on the feedback

(pink) only lead-RC network (27kOhm+82pF) and (yellow) lead and lag-RC network (39kOhm+100pF) at 8kHz square wave.