October 9, 2025 - Working on the high voltage issue and investigating why the 100TH's won't light up. Tested the filaments on the 100TH's and they were fine. Checked the filaments on the 3B28 rectifiers next - one of them the filaments would not light so I ordered two of them and they should arrive on Tuesday. Also installed the new fuses.
October 8, 2025 - Making progress - got the unit powered up - replaced a 807 where the filament was not lighting, cleaned the relays and was able to turn on the filament power, exciter power and the plate power - initially the relay was chattering when I turned on the plate power but some good cleaning of a relay with Deoxit resolved the issue. One remaining issue I need to explore is that the 100TH tubes filaments are not lighting.
October 3, 2025 - Got the BC-610 inside and got all the tubes installed - was missing a 5Z3 so I ordered one. Also built the power cord on October 1st.
September 29, 2025 - Took some pictures of the inside of the BC-614-E,
September 27, 2025 - Replaced the screws in the bottom with stainless steel screws - the ones in the base were rusting and the ones holding the HV power supply in were temporary. I ran out of black paint for the bottom - the brown is the primer.
Also found a box of nine of the correct power plugs - Hubbell 7224 - there may be a newer number (L2-20R) that will work as calling Hubbell they didn't have any info on this older one, but mentioned the new one and it looks promising. For now I will use the older one.
September 22, 2025 - Here's the the power plug. I have ordered what I believe is the mate for the power plug. I also received some additional coils and tuning units - more on those later.
September 21, 2025 - Got it out of the truck today. When it was loaded on Saturday we discovered someone before previous owner I purchased it from had taken the bolts out that hold in the power supply in the bottom of the unit. It fell forward and getting it back in before putting the base on took up most of the time unloading. I also primed the base with Rust-oleum and painted then it black. The BC-610-H is S/N 836. The BC-614-E is SN 524.
September 20 - Picked this up today.
September 19, 2025 - the newest boat anchor.
