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General => Open Discussion => Topic started by: pietro_moog on January 15, 2019, 12:16:41 PM

Title: NPN Rangemaster Transistor by mistake. Now what?
Post by: pietro_moog on January 15, 2019, 12:16:41 PM
Ok, i'm very angry.
I sold my rangemaster to a friend (because he really wanted it and he's a good friend), so i bought
another Transistor from SmallBear.
Today i got it and i found out I bought a NPN !

What am i gonna do? how do they sound compared to PNP?

I'm very disappointed of myself  :-[
Title: Re: NPN Rangemaster Transistor by mistake. Now what?
Post by: timbo_93631 on January 15, 2019, 07:19:17 PM
Are you using a board with a built in charge pump like the newest version from the Bean, or something that just has a -9v and ground to hook power to?  If it is non charge pump just put +9v where you'd normally have -9v, and if you are using any electrolytics that had the +leg going to ground, reverse them.  With the current MBP board reverse D1 and the LED, omit C5,C6,C7 and D2, reverse C3 and C8, and jumper pad 1 to pad 5 on the charge pump chip section
Title: Re: NPN Rangemaster Transistor by mistake. Now what?
Post by: Rockhorst on January 16, 2019, 03:19:23 PM
NPN or PNP doesn't really influence the sound and both can make excellent rangemasters. They just need a different circuit (or some tweaks) like Timbo suggested.