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Building Melquiades: questions and answers. 6601 
Bias help 6601 
RE: Bias help 6601 
Bias help 6601 
It looks like you problem with bias are over. 6601 
More biasing notes 6598 
The Melquiades’ loading resistor. 6597 
Pics 6585 
The Melqs are breeding... 6585 
Any follow up, Charles? 6489 
Melquiades and preamplification. 6256 
Separate power supply configuration 6120 
The location of last cap and about the Milq6 cables 6120 
Redundancy 6120 
Melquiades is breading…. 6083 
Thai Milq 6082 
Milq impressions 6082 
Melquiades amp 6009 
...since he is your friend and he knows your objectives. 6009 
I will try to do it by myself... 6007 
Tribute & co 6006 
I decided... 6006 
The loading quandary 6006 
Reply from promitheus 6005 
I choose tribute 5989 
Sounds too good to be true 5989 
The OPT’s gap and the choke inductance 5988 
Power transformers 5987 
Maybe it is true... 5983 
The crash-guidance about the transformer ordering. 5983 
Tribute Transformer specifications 5982 
The 10H at 250mA is a good size transformer. 5982 
Power transformers and chokes. 5977 
Transformers, chokes, etc… 5977 
The 6C33C OPT, is it done? 5913 
Still waiting. 5912 
Any further developments? 5724 
Tribute still in business? 5640 
Tribute never was “in business”. 5640 
The Disappearing Act Business 5640 
Will Mel. drive Gryphon 5504 
I have no idea Gryphon Trident are but… 5504 
Melquiades for Trident 5503 
OPT from TRIBUTE 5369 
The AMCC-160 core. 5369 
Tribute transformers and chokes 5345 
Baby caps 5345 
Toroids from Poland 5344 
Toroids 5344 
Think about ergonomics and esthetics of your design. 5344 
The geometry 5344 
The magnetics taking considerations. 5343 
Magnetics and such 5343 
I was taling about purely mechanical noises... 5343 
Vibration controll... 5343 
Use non-ferromagnetic materials to mount magnetics 5343 
Enclousure project 5343 
Alu +Cu sandwich 5343 
Melquiades Schematic Version 4.4 ...where is R7 and R8? 5313 
Melquiades resistor question 4575 
Kind of irelevent. 4575 
No 6E5PI 4574 
A fuse. 4574 
12v-5v service power supply 4550 
Minimalism 4549 
Service power supply 4549 
The right service power supply 4549 
Juts put is one extra transformer for now. 4548 
Hello and Fullrange Melquiades schematics question 4547 
Answers. 4547 
Practical advise for full range Milq 4535 
Answers 4535 
Test jacks 4535 
Melquiades debugging 4460 
Melquiades debugging. 4460 
Bais and filament voltages 4460 
Bais and filament voltage 4460 
Go after transformers maker. 4460 
Update , bais and high pass 4292 
Correction 4291 
Milq high pass 4291 
Coupling capacitor 4291 
Bias 2772 
God, it was so long time ago!!!! 2772 
Further troubleshooting 2770 
Until next week.... 2770 
You are OK. 2763 
Great! 2762 
The R5 is the key. 2762 
25-30mA or 15-17mA 2762 
Ok, you got me here. 2761 
Burnt fingers 2759 
Grounding 2750 
Yes, something like this. 2750 
Buzz off 2714 
Thanks. 2714 
PeaceMAT XS™ 2713 
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