GZ37 horizontal?

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Does anyone know if a GZ37 can be mounted horizontally?
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Max N wrote: Tue Feb 26, 2019 9:46 pm Does anyone know if a GZ37 can be mounted horizontally?
You asked this in 2006. :lol: :lol:

http://www.world-designs.co.uk/forum/sh ... php?t=1118

I can't find any other references to horizontal mounting.
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Its indirectly heated so I don't see why not. And as Andrew pointed out before, Boarder Patrol do it.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~valve ... trolWP.htm
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Thanks Phil, your memory is clearly much better than mine! :oops:
Thanks Nick. Reading that link reminds me that the reason I asked the question back then was because I was cloning a BP PSU for my WAD 300 PSEs.
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Not my memory Max, just used Google. :)

Had you considered using a pair of damper diodes instead of the GZ37 ?

6D22s are the ones I use. About 30 secs warm up, bit more than the GZ.

https://datasheetspdf.com/pdf-file/1039 ... na/6D22S/1
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Yes, I’ve used 6au4s in the past. But I have a few gz37 so I wanted to put one of them to work :)
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I’d use gz37 too. Horizontally if needs be.
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Hi Paul :)
GZ37 it is then!
I'll start a new thread when I've got some progress to show.
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can I ask why does it have to be recumbent?
 
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More aerodynamic !
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Mike H wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2019 5:45 pm can I ask why does it have to be recumbent?
It has to go inside an existing enclosure - and GZ37s are surprisingly tall....

Or to put it another way, I didn't measure to check it fitted until now....
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:D
IslandPink wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2019 6:26 pm More aerodynamic !
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Paul Barker wrote: Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:46 pm I’d use gz37 too. Horizontally if needs be.
I'm with Paul on this one.. the gz37 is a good valve.. I have a pye Mozart stereo somewhere the gz34 and el34s are all horizontal its had some stick at my lads and still is fine
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Max N wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2019 6:58 pm Or to put it another way, I didn't measure to check it fitted until now....
That's the explanation I prefer :lol:

(So like my own experience)
 
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