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THORDARSON THORDARSON ELEC.MFG.CO. CHICAGO No. 346-A rc SOUND AMPLIFIER MANUAL a Price 15c The THORDARSON ELECTRIC MFG. CO. is now centering its forty-fist consecutive business year. During this period it has grown from a small one-man shop to « place of leadership in the transformer field. Today it lis the largest organization in the world devoted txclusively to the manufacture of transformers. Chester H. Thordarson, founder and president, is entirely a self-made man. A native of Iceland, Mr. Thordarson came to this country at the age of five. As a young man of twenty-one he found employment in Chicago fas an_armatute winder and became intensely inter- tested in the study of physics. Six years later. with @ capital of only seventy-five dollars, he founded the THORDARSON ELECTRIC MFG. CO, Soon after the business was started, Mr. Thordarson began to invent and build larger electrical apparatus fand to extend the THORDARSON line. During every ‘one of its forty business years, the company has grown Me. €H. Thordarson at work in his brary developed and tested. and inereated its prestige un- til today the THORDARSON trade-matk is recognized everywhere as a guarantee of dependable, efficient design and construction, The THORDARSON factory is more than an assembly plant. All phases of trans former manufacturing, engineering, core and case stamping, coil winding, impregnating, enameling, assembly, and testing are conducted under one roof. Such features 2s heat treat ing laminations, use of special core materials, and high speed precision controlled winding machines, now being featured by many trans- former manufacturers, were developed by THORDARSON many years ogo and today ore accepted as standard THORDARSON maintains 0 well-equipped Sound Laboratory in which trained technical men are constantly at work. Directly in charge of research in the THORDARSON. Sound Laboratory. is Jerome H. Kleker. Mr. Kleker hes been closely associated with sound equipment development since its inception, and has traveled extensively in his work, supervising the installation of theatrical sound systems in Vienna, Bucharest, Prague, Con- stantinople, Wersaw, and other cities in Germany. Crecho-Slovekia, Poland, Austria, Hungary. Rov- mania, and Turkey: 2s well as in such South Amer. ican states at Panama, Ecuador, and Columbia. With’ such an organization backing up every THORDARSON Transformer, the purchaser is assured of the most advanced design, reliable construction, and tested performance. Jerome Kleker, Sound Engine THORDARSON « « SOUND AMPLIFIER MANUAL No. 346-4 HE THORDARSON Sound Amplifier Manual hos been compiled to exsist the experimenter and am- plifier constructor in building end instolling public address and other sound systems incorporating matched components. Years of experience in building sound equipment have proved to THORDARSON engineers that greatly in- creased efficiency and high fidelity reproduction are possible only through the use of matched transformers. The circuits given in the following pages are designed te bring these advantages to every constructor of sound amplifying equipment Every tube, every transformer, and every component part of the circuits shown are carefully matched in perform ance, Voltages, curents, resistances, and capacities have been designed to the highest theoretical efficiency, ‘and then carefully checked from a practical operation standpoint. As a result, the highest possible output is ‘obtained without overloaded or undetloaded circuits— every unit is fully balanced or matched. Thus the greatest power output is made available at the lowest expendi- ture for tubes and equipment, while distortion is reduced to a minimum, Simplicity of design has been obtained without affecting quality of tone. From the diagrams and data given, 2 high quality amplifier can be constructed with definite ansurance of satisfactory operation. Amplifiers are shown raging ftom 2 watts to 100 watts in power output, covering practically all requitements. The input circuits have been treated separately, as experience has shown that different installations require different sources of sound, ‘The THORDARSON sound engineering staff will be glad to render any further assittance you may requite in the solution of your sound problems. Do not hesitate to write. TABLE OF CONTENTS ase THORDARSON Audio Coupling Transformer Performance Charts 4 Type 45 Tube Push-Pull Output Class A Amplifier. 5 Type 2A5 Tube (Pentode) Push-Pull Amplifier. 6 Type 53 Tube Push-Pull Class B Amplifier. 7 Type 50 Tube Output Push Pll Class A Amplifier. 8 Push-Pull Parallel Type $3 Tube Output Class 8 Amplifier 9 Push-Pull Type 2A3 Tube Output Class A Amplifier 10 Type 2A5 Tube (Triode) Push-Pull Output Class ‘A-Piime Amplifier 2 Type 46 and 89 Tubes Push-Pull Output Class B Amplifier “ Push-ull Parallel 283 Amplifir 16 Push-Pul Parallel Type 46 Tube Output Class B Amplifier 7 Dual-Channel High Fidelity Amplifier 18 High Power Output Stages: a Push-Pull Type 845 Tube Class A Output 20 Type 800 Tube Class 8 Output 2 D.C. Operated Amplifiers: Type 48 Tube [Pentode) 2 Type 19 Tube Battery Operated Class 8 23 Mobile Amplifiers: Type 79 Tube Class 8 cay Type 79 Tube Push-Pull Parallel Class 8. 8 Pre-Amplifier Ci Head Amplifier for Condenser Microphones, .. 26 Photo-Electric Cell Pre-Amplifier for Sound-On-Film Reproduction. 2 Microphone, Mixing, and Input Circuits. 28 Speaker Output Coupling Circuits 30 Dynamic Speaker Field Power Supply 3 {© 1934—THORDARSON F&C. HFG, CO. epradecton of contre paritied proving rt en the PHORDARSON ELECTRNE MEG. . THORDARSON Audio Coupling Transformer Performance Charts In high fidelity or wide-range transmission or amplifica- tion, it is of the greatest importance that the audio coupling transformers show the proper response over the entire audible frequency range. The performance curves shown below were obtained from representative THORDARSON Coupling Transformers— Tine to line, line to grid, interstage coupling, and o complete emplifierNOT from just a single uncepre- sentative model ‘The shope of these frequency response curves is not just the result of empirical design, but is the shape that long, experimentation has shown to give the most desirable overall response when incorporated in a complete amplifier. THORDARSON transformers have been developed to afford both high and low note compensation—to give not just a linear relation between stages, but ACTUAL LINEAR FREQUENCY OUTPUT over the audible range —the true test of high fidelity reproduction. Accurate, verified statements of performance are sup- plied with every THORDARSON transformer. All ratings of current, voltage, frequency response, and other im- portant factors are the result of actual test in the THORDARSON laboratories. Representative THORDARSON Frequency Response Curves T-6195 Line to Line 200 or 50-chm to 200 or 50-ohm T-6193 Line to Grid 1.5870 Interstage PLP. 56 to P.P, 2A3 Two-Stage Amplifier using Type 56 and 2A3 Tubes 17-5870 and T-£754 SOUND AMPLIFIER MANUAL === [KUVUS0)| Type 45 Tube Push-Pull Output » » Class A Amplifier Output: Five watts The cup ofthe fal stage ic coupled to + THORDARSON Equipment ' Stages: Three Dupe Meas is real Impedance T5738. Intentege Tanformer T2_ T8741 ntentage Tansformer 13 T4748 Output Tarstomer 14 14363. Power Tansformer CHA Tgsr Filter Choke soe . impedence of 8,15, S00chm, The & Tubes: Two 45's, two 56's, and one 80 8, 15-ohm taps ete for connecting directly to Wis amplir hes been specially designed to. the voie call ofa dynamic spel, and the provide enremely Nigh quel S0.chm top is wed. whee the spesier i {low poveteatat vtaing he dependable leated mre than 20 feet om the ampiier {ape 45 tober in push, The stdin tip ay he bewed to weer Migcellaneous Equipment ‘This tube, while not a recent development, 2n6 9 more magnetic speakers. See pages {500.000-chm volume control than won ever increasing acceptance for low 32 and 3! for information on speaker civeuits, 2,500-ohm carbon resistor—I watt power high quay eutpts Toe Vasformer 28000.0hm carbon eitor—t atk ouped type Bb tube sage fa oat ofthe 15 00shm eatbon resort wat ‘output stege provide ample gain for direct ohm dynamic speaker field. If itis not com 30,000-chm wire wound resistor—10 watt Speration of High or fw level catbon mcr. viet to emply the dynamic speater Feld Rb TBD.ohmnde wound mar 10 welt ‘hones, phoneprephpickop. or deact cons st # eho in the power reply as shown, RG ken scwahte sevdecr ae colt tection fom detector ovtpl of ateie tube. shuld be replaced with «T4607 Fite 2 fod, clecwehGs sondener=90 volt Tages 28 and 29 show aable opt and mi Chote and 1 40Dchm, HOmat eter con 3 tiple mtd electliecondemer~ ‘Operations entily from a 15. b9-eyele, ‘AG. line, with eurtent supplied for an 800. nm ing secs for in open tected see ‘ove 4s ~] tH 7 : A) 8—so0n JoIPuT INPUT TRANS. on los SV. Gord Fficmcct| === sOUND AMPLIFIER MANUAL Type 2A5 Tube (Pentode) « « Push-Pull Amopli ler THORDARSON Equipment TA TS7Antentage Pastner 12 To7el nip anor Malte Seondry Pes ‘Output: Six watts cone forthe amplifer tubes and one fr the Transformer Stages: Two cect. CHA Tlo9e Filter Choke Tubes: Two 2A6's, one 56, and one 80 vn or output i contalled by Rl. « vale potestomet type sheotat acre the 33 Miseellaneous Equipment SF the pat tbe. Seo pages 28 and 29 or The exceptionally high gin of type 2AS pen~ aable input eit and input Wanderer R-SODE00 ie _ Sareense, By ! la 5, clave ol a ig ela Types 46 and 59 Tube « « Push-Pull Output Class B Amplifiers Output: Twenty watts Stages: Three Tubes: Three 46's or three 59"s, one 56, and one 83 The Class B operation of tubes makes it possible to con- struct an amplfierhaving considerable output power with reasonably inexpensive equipment. The types 46 and 5? tubes were originally designed for this type of service and are used to advantage. ‘When tuber ate operated in Class B, the grids are driven positive, causing grid current to flow. This necesitates tsing driver tube having power output capable of swing- ing the Clots B grids without distorting the signal. The design of the driver transformer is critical, since the econdary must be of low resistance to prevent distor- tion due te voltage drop. Then, too, the impedance ratio must be comrect, so the reflected impedance to the driver tube remains high enough to prevent harmonic distortion, even when the grid impedance is the lowest, as onloud passages. THORDARSON Transformer T-6770 has been designed for this service and its use will insure high quality reproduction. These amplifier circuits are basically the same, except that one employs the type 46 tube, which is a direct filament tube, and the other employs the type 59 tube, which is an indirect heater or cathode tube. The gin, power output, and frequency characteristics ate prac- tically identical. In the circuit, employing the type 59 tubes, all amplifier Type 46 Tube Push-Pull Output Class 8 Amplifier ToINPUT, caRcuiT on | INPUT TRANS. 115V. 600" “4 = SOUND AMPLIFIER MANUAL filaments are operated at a common potential, the two 2yp-velt filament, windings of the power transformer beeing connected in parallel. In this case the bias resistor and condenser are wired between ground and the cathode of the driver tube, The circuit containing type 46 tuber requires the bias resistor and by-pass condenter R-6 and C-| connected between ground and the center tap of the 2.5-volt fila ment winding supplying the single 46 driver tube. Two type 46 or type 59 tubes are used in the output stage in push-pull Class B. They ate preceded by a single type 46 or type 59 tube as a triode Clats A driver. A type 56 input stage is used in both circuits, See pages 28 and 29 for input circuit end input transformer data, The power supply uses a type 83 mercury vapor rectifier tube with a choke input filter. eee This amplifier provides moderately high power with » ‘minimum number of tubes and very low cost power sup- ply system. All plate, filament, and grid voltages are provided by the power supply, Adequate gain is secured for reproduction from carbon ‘microphone, magnetic phonograph pickup, radio tuner ‘or dynamic, condenser, and velocity microphones with tuitable pre-amplifier circuits. See pages 26 and 27. TH 12 13 Tt cH! cH? Ra R2 RS Re RS Ro Rb C1 cz ca THORDARSON Equipment 1.5738 1.8778 1.6752 1.5514 16749 T5754 Interstage Transformer Interstage Transformer Output Transformer Power Transformer Input Choke Filter Choke Miscellaneous Equipment '500,000-chm volume control 2,500.ohm carbon resistor—I watt 10,000-chm carbon resittor—I watt 2,500-chm wire wound resistor—I0 watt 15,000-chm wire wound resistor—10 watt 1,500.ohm wite wound resistor—10 watt (46 tubes) 1,000.ohm wire wound resistor—10 watt (59 tubes) 4-mid, electrolytic condenser— 25 volt 2amfd, electrolytic condenser—450 volt Triple B-mfd. electrolytic condenser—450 volt -l-anfd, paper condenser—500 volt 5 SOUND AMPLIFIER MANUAL Push-Pull Parallel 2A3 Amplifier THORDARSON Equipment Thirty watts Stages: Three Tubes: Four 2A3's, thee 56's, one 83, and one 80 Four of the very success type 2A tuber are employed inthe puk-pal parallel ot put stoge of ths amplifier They delver 9 Seedy output of 20 welt. High power output i ms ble ot ve duced eott through the development ef th fnew anplifer design. Not only i the trans: fermer equipment inexpensive for such high power cutout, but the tube equipment i ‘conerpondingly lows The frequency range of fom 50 to 10,000 caysles covered by stiform, distortion free fepreduction, Over the normally able Waice and musis frequency range, the aml Ter responte ie at to within faction of © decibel lve variation than the human ear ‘con detect ‘Overall goin i provided to secure maximum sed. oulpit from standard double-button Ccobon microphone, magnetic pickup, or dio tunes, See pages 28 and 29 for input ‘heuite and transformer ToINPUT ‘TRANS.OR & inpureiRculT This amplifier i designed for repraduction of voice, mutic, and dic or flim secordings (with stable preamplifier for photo-ell— see pages 26 and 27}. The diagram shows no input trtsformer to the fst tube, since the proper tensioner would be dependent upon the service for which the amplifier it Intended to be used. Pages 28 ond 29 show titable input ord ming cuits for tht lanplifer. The output of the final stage is coupled to a THORDARSON 1.5792 Output eonsformer specially designed for ute with four 243 tuber. Ie hae output impedances to match 4, 8, ond ISchm voice cal and 500-0hm specter line ‘An amas feture of the amplifier is the combination of lfbiae on the fist two tages ond adjustable Bred bias onthe oxt pit stage, This permite the bias curent to bbe set co the plate cuvent is execlly 160 rma. with no signal, the eplimum epersting Condition for thir output fabe combination “his ewrent reading may be made though fo plisin jack «iminating the need for a peimanently intaled ammetersinee once ipid bias inset, the nosignal current wl not vary appreciably. tH 12 cn 4 cH cHe cHa cs Ter 15070 am rar rane T1807 are Intertage Tearsformer Intestage Transformer ‘Outpt Tansormer Power Transformer Input Chote Fiter Choke Fiter Choke (Other Parts 500,000.0hm volume conte 2500-0 enrbon retistor—I watt toe: fh carbon resistor watt 1300-0 carbon reistor—l welt 2000-chm wire wound resitor—20 watt 20,000-hm wie wound resitor— 20 wat 1.000-shr wire wound resstor— lowatt 5,000-chm wire wound potentiometer 50-ohm carbon reistor—I watt ef tlectoltic condenser 25 volt 2am, electalc condenser—480 volt ‘S-nf.elctabtic eondenter—450 volt etd electolytic condenser—450 volt lovmf electrolytic condenser—100 volt 73 SOUND AMPLIFIER MANUAL PUTO Push-Pull Parallel Type 46 Tube bees Output Class B Amplifier Output: Forty watts Stages: Four Tubes: Six 46's, two 56%, and two 83's In this ampliter extremely high power output is developed, yet only receiver tubes ate used thoughout, keeping the cort of pate very low, The plate voltage is low, allowing the filer condensers C2 to be of the elee- ‘role type—an importat factor in secu ing low cont The final output stage delves up to 40.watt power with four type 46 tubes in push-pull Clots B, The two ving tode operation, This output 's shown coupled through a THORDARSON Univeral Output Transformer, the T4753, o special heavy duty wait having ample eating te handle ths large amount of energy. For ids ate ied tor To INPUT __ CIRCUIT OR INPUT TRANS. ORIVER'59 oureuT ‘59 & input ond output circuit de 28, 29, 30, and 31. ‘When it is dested to ate the cathode heater type 59 tuberin place of the dict heating type 48s in the lat to. changes will be necenaty beyond eubaitue ‘on ofthe proper type of sockets and ble alteration of connections, The left comer of the diestam shows the proper tube ele meet wing. In addition the 750-chm bis existor, RS, is to be taken out of the filbment center tap lead. A 550-0hm bist resistor is connected from the cathode of the tvo type 69 diver lubes to ground. THORDARSON Equipment Tl TSD0 Inteage Tesformer 12 TS041 Intentage Homfomer Ta Talte Intcntose Honfomer 14 TIS. Output hanstormer ns, 500 pages 1 no ether ts 16 oH cHe 7.6094. Filament Transformer T4095 tnsformer T4315. Input Choke T1607 Fiker Chobe Miscellaneous Equipment Ra Ro Ra Rs RE at Re ca ca ca 500,000.chm volume contol 2,500-ohm cathon resiston—t watt 25,000-shm carbon sesitor—t watt 10,000-ohm carbon resitor—t watt 750.oke wire wound resstor—10 watt {(850.ohm if type 59 tuber are ued See tort] 30,000-shn wise wound 0 watt 2.00.hm wite wourd resitor—25 watt 25.0hm wire wound potentiometer with Insulated chef. 4amld, lectcljtic condenser 28 volt Zim. electeclytic condenserA50 volt Grmfd, elechlytie condenser 450 volt 5008 2. ig HORDARSON SOUND AMPLIFIER MANUAL Dual-Channel High Fidelity Amplifier Designed by M. R. Jones, Jensen Radio Monufacturing Co., Chicago advanced amplifier design is outstanding in the new standard of reproduction it introduces. It has been designed from the outset to provide the very finest music and voice reproduction that is now made possible by late developments in high fidelity speakers. Though the proposed RMA. standards of high fidelity wide-range reproduction state that the frequency band of only 50 to 7,500 cycles must be covered with v tions in output not to exceed 10 decibels, this amplifier provides reproduction greatly surpassing this standard. Two enttely separate amplifying channels are incorpo: roted in this unit: one for the lows, 20 to 1500 cycles; and the other from 1000 to 16,000 cycles. Since each channel covers only # given frequency band, the efficiency and power handling ability is greater, reducing the pos: sibility of overloading the tubes or speaker. This separate amplifying system for high and low fre- quencies cartes all the way to the output, where the lows are reproduced by one speaker, and the highs by a spe- ‘tweeter" type speaker designed to give high eff ciency and faithful reproduction of frequencies up to the highest delivered by this channel of the amplifier. Volume and tone contiols are incorporated, as shown in the accompanying diagram, to allow independent vario- tion of both volume and frequency response for each amplifier, assuring flexibility to meet the operating needs of every installation. ‘A.200-ohm input is provided for microphone or low im- pedance pickup, and a high impedance pickup and radio tuner input The full advantages of wide-range reproduction ean be secured only with speaker equipment capable of reproduc ing all the frequencies that the amplifier supplies. For this teaton, only the best available units are recom- mended for use with this amplifier for both high and low frequency speakers A bats "booper” circuit has been incorporated in the low channel for those who like to hear plenty of lows at all levels, and in order to compensate with the lors of lows at low volume levels. With this ctcut, the harmonic content of the extreme lows (below 100 cycles i lightly increased, but does not sound objectionable, If R3 is made zero, the bass "booper" circuit, CH. is temoved and the bass response is held up the resonant circuits R-7, C5, T4, and C-6, As the resistance R-3 is increased, the bass response is increased to a peok—the peak occurring at approximately 70 cycles when the re sistance is @ maximum. If it is desired to push this peak up the frequency scale, it can be done by decreasing the capacity of CX (at .005-mfd. the peak occurs at about 100 eyes). By rotating the variable condenser C-8, it is possible to ccut off the extreme high frequency to suit operating con ditions. The level of the entire high channel can aio be adjusted, independent of the adjustment of C-8, by vary- ing the resistor R-2. The most pleasing high frequency channel level can be determined by the listener It is best to build @ power supply as on entirely separate unit co that hum may be reduced to a minimum. Because of the excellent response curve at low frequencies, and the many transformers in the amplifier, the positions of T-l and CH-2 must be adjusted so the hum picked up by them is at minimum. It is sometimes necessary to rethield them individually. Care must also be taken in the placement of the other parts in the connecting leads to reduce hum and feedback. THORDARSON Equipment for Dual Channel Amplifier T5516 200 or 50-ohm Line-to- Grid Transformer a 1.5736. Interstage Transformer STi ces 7.5739 Intertage Teansformer T5741 Interstage Transformer 1.5303 Power Transformer 1.5338. Filament Transformer FSrnomwat on estonis 9) [emit eusseoosen hte)

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