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    ECC86 Valve Radio: Summer Circuitscollection

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    The document describes a circuit for a simple valve radio that uses an ECC86 vacuum tube, which can operate on a low voltage of 6V, making it suitable for use in transistor radios powered by car batteries. The circuit consists of the ECC86 used as a detector and preamplifier in the first stage and an audio amplifier in the second stage, with a ferrite rod antenna and headphones. The radio is able to receive local AM radio stations on a simple power supply and has the sound quality of older vacuum tube designs.

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    ECC86 Valve Radio: Summer Circuitscollection

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    The document describes a circuit for a simple valve radio that uses an ECC86 vacuum tube, which can operate on a low voltage of 6V, making it suitable for use in transistor radios powered by car batteries. The circuit consists of the ECC86 used as a detector and preamplifier in the first stage and an audio amplifier in the second stage, with a ferrite rod antenna and headphones. The radio is able to receive local AM radio stations on a simple power supply and has the sound quality of older vacuum tube designs.

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    Elektor 2001

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    e017051

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    The document describes a circuit for a simple valve radio that uses an ECC86 vacuum tube, which can operate on a low voltage of 6V, making it suitable for use in transistor radios powered by car batteries. The circuit consists of the ECC86 used as a detector and preamplifier in the first stage and an audio amplifier in the second stage, with a ferrite rod antenna and headphones. The radio is able to receive local AM radio stations on a simple power supply and has the sound quality of older vacuum tube designs.

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    ECC86 Valve Radio: Summer Circuitscollection

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    The document describes a circuit for a simple valve radio that uses an ECC86 vacuum tube, which can operate on a low voltage of 6V, making it suitable for use in transistor radios powered by car batteries. The circuit consists of the ECC86 used as a detector and preamplifier in the first stage and an audio amplifier in the second stage, with a ferrite rod antenna and headphones. The radio is able to receive local AM radio stations on a simple power supply and has the sound quality of older vacuum tube designs.

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    of 1

    SUMMER CIRCUITSCOLLECTION

    When a transistor is being tested (S2 open, S3 in position


    S1a
    2 or 3) a current will flow through the base-emitter junction
    of the transistor under test, the value of which can be com- R1 R2 R3 R4

    330Ω

    330Ω
    puted by dividing the voltage across R1 or R2 by its resis-

    56k

    560k
    M1
    tance. With S3 in position 2 this will be (6 V – 0.6 V)/560 kΩ
    R5 NPN
    = approx. 10 µA. If the transistor has a gain of 1000 it will 10mA

    270Ω
    2
    cause a collector current (and therefore a meter current) of 3 Bt1
    1
    10 mA, causing full-scale deflection of the moving coil S3
    c
    PNP

    TUT 6V
    instrument. Therefore, the value indicated by the meter,
    S2
    when S3 is in position 2, has to be multiplied by a factor of b

    100 to obtain the gain of the transistor. In position 3 the base e


    S3: 1 = LEAKAGE TEST
    resistor is 10 times lower (R1 = 56 kΩ), so in this case the 2 = α = 0 ...1000
    reading has to be multiplied by 10 to obtain the gain. 3 = α = 0 ...100
    S1b
    It will be clear that position 2 of S3 is intended for high 014051 - 11

    gains of up to 1000 and position 3 for gains of 0 to 100. The


    purpose of S1 is to reverse the polarity: the upper position
    drawn is for NPN transistors, the bottom for PNP types. If also possible to replace M1 with a digital meter.
    you have no moving coil instrument available, it is of course (014051-1)

    ECC86 Valve Radio 051


    B. Kainka
    +6V
    Actually, the age of valves is already past —
    A1
    but valves just refuse to go away! There’s 4 R2 LS1
    33k

    5
    many a valve radio still in use, and there are
    C3
    many valves lying in the ‘junk box’ waiting to 2k

    be rediscovered. If only we could do without V1a 6


    100n V1b 1
    the high voltages! However, there is a valve R1
    1M
    that can manage with only 6 V — the ECC86. C2
    7 2

    At the beginning of the 1960s, the electronics 8 3


    47p 9
    industry was faced with a problem. The tran-
    sistor had just been born, so it was finally pos- L1
    C1 R3
    sible to build car radios without vibrators and C4
    10k

    large transformers. However, the cut-off fre- 500p


    470p
    quencies were still too low to allow usable VHF
    mixer stages to be built using transistors. This V1 = ECC86 014069 - 11

    meant that a valve had to be used in a transis-


    tor circuit. This valve was the ECC86, which
    was intended to be used for short wave input stages and self- impedance of 2 kΩ. A 500-pF capacitor between the two
    oscillating mixer stages in car receivers powered directly stages ensures that RF signals will not be further amplified.
    from the car battery. According to the data sheet, an anode Otherwise the valve might easily recall its original intended
    voltage of 6.3 V or 12 V may be used. The heater voltage is use and start oscillating in the short-wave range. A ferrite
    always 6.3 V. We owe the ECC86 low-voltage valve to this rod with a diameter of 10 mm and a length of 100 mm, with
    unique bottleneck in the history of electronics technology. a winding of 50 turns of enamelled copper wire, serves as
    Our circuit is a nearly classical valve audion for the the aerial.
    medium-wave range. Power is supplied by a 6-V lead-acid The radio has a good sound and can receive local signals.
    gel battery. The circuit is nearly the same as that of a two- In the evening, with a sufficiently long external aerial, it can
    stage amplifier. The first stage provides the demodulation receive numerous MW stations. It feels just like being back
    and preamplification. The second stage is the audio output in the good old days.
    amplifier, which directly drives a headphone with an (014069-1)

    7-8/2001 Elektor Electronics 83

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