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Building Melquiades: questions and answers. 6522 
Bias help 6522 
RE: Bias help 6522 
Bias help 6522 
It looks like you problem with bias are over. 6522 
More biasing notes 6519 
The Melquiades’ loading resistor. 6518 
Pics 6506 
The Melqs are breeding... 6506 
Any follow up, Charles? 6410 
Melquiades and preamplification. 6177 
Separate power supply configuration 6041 
The location of last cap and about the Milq6 cables 6041 
Redundancy 6041 
Melquiades is breading…. 6004 
Thai Milq 6003 
Milq impressions 6003 
Melquiades amp 5930 
...since he is your friend and he knows your objectives. 5930 
I will try to do it by myself... 5928 
Tribute & co 5927 
I decided... 5927 
The loading quandary 5927 
Reply from promitheus 5926 
I choose tribute 5910 
Sounds too good to be true 5910 
The OPT’s gap and the choke inductance 5909 
Power transformers 5908 
Maybe it is true... 5904 
The crash-guidance about the transformer ordering. 5904 
Tribute Transformer specifications 5903 
The 10H at 250mA is a good size transformer. 5903 
Power transformers and chokes. 5898 
Transformers, chokes, etc… 5898 
The 6C33C OPT, is it done? 5834 
Still waiting. 5833 
Any further developments? 5645 
Tribute still in business? 5561 
Tribute never was “in business”. 5561 
The Disappearing Act Business 5561 
Will Mel. drive Gryphon 5425 
I have no idea Gryphon Trident are but… 5425 
Melquiades for Trident 5424 
OPT from TRIBUTE 5290 
The AMCC-160 core. 5290 
Tribute transformers and chokes 5266 
Baby caps 5266 
Toroids from Poland 5265 
Toroids 5265 
Think about ergonomics and esthetics of your design. 5265 
The geometry 5265 
The magnetics taking considerations. 5264 
Magnetics and such 5264 
I was taling about purely mechanical noises... 5264 
Vibration controll... 5264 
Use non-ferromagnetic materials to mount magnetics 5264 
Enclousure project 5264 
Alu +Cu sandwich 5264 
Melquiades Schematic Version 4.4 ...where is R7 and R8? 5234 
Melquiades resistor question 4496 
Kind of irelevent. 4496 
No 6E5PI 4495 
A fuse. 4495 
12v-5v service power supply 4471 
Minimalism 4470 
Service power supply 4470 
The right service power supply 4470 
Juts put is one extra transformer for now. 4469 
Hello and Fullrange Melquiades schematics question 4468 
Answers. 4468 
Practical advise for full range Milq 4456 
Answers 4456 
Test jacks 4456 
Melquiades debugging 4381 
Melquiades debugging. 4381 
Bais and filament voltages 4381 
Bais and filament voltage 4381 
Go after transformers maker. 4381 
Update , bais and high pass 4213 
Correction 4212 
Milq high pass 4212 
Coupling capacitor 4212 
Bias 2693 
God, it was so long time ago!!!! 2693 
Further troubleshooting 2691 
Until next week.... 2691 
You are OK. 2684 
Great! 2683 
The R5 is the key. 2683 
25-30mA or 15-17mA 2683 
Ok, you got me here. 2682 
Burnt fingers 2680 
Grounding 2671 
Yes, something like this. 2671 
Buzz off 2635 
Thanks. 2635 
PeaceMAT XS™ 2634 
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