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NPN Rangemaster Transistor by mistake. Now what?

Started by pietro_moog, January 15, 2019, 12:16:41 PM

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pietro_moog

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  :-[

timbo_93631

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
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Rockhorst

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.