REF150 Tube Bias is increasing!?
Hi:
I was going to post this as a reply to the coupling caps topic but since the last post there was 2 years ago, I thought I'd post this as a new thread.
Does anyone know what failure due to the teflon coupling caps looks like?
I decided to check the bias on my power tubes in my REF150 and I found that the front tube of the right set power tubes on the left channel was reading 70mV! The last time I checked which was only a few listening sessions ago, they were are 64/65mV. The left side of the left channel were reading exactly what I set them to awhile ago.
The right channel had the same problem. The front tube of the right set of power tubes was reading 75mV!
I lowered the bias to 63mV and then checked the rear tube which was more than 64mV and then I went back to the front and it was already at 67mV.
At this point, I just turned off the power.
Could this increase in biasing voltage be due to the coupling caps starting to fail? My local tech mentioned that I should check my bias periodically because when the coupling caps fail, they do not take very long to completely fail.
Thanks,
Walter
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