another find

nutxo · Post by **nutxo** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:23 am

Not PG but check these out

Post by **mr tibbs** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:26 am

That's beautiful! What the hell am I looking at?

nutxo · Post by **nutxo** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:28 am

mr tibbs wrote:That's beautiful! What the hell am I looking at?

Russian made ppi tube amps . No heatsinks.

Post by **Bfowler** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:39 am

they could be soviet missle guidance systems...

or just amps....but still

tristan20 · Post by **tristan20** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:55 am

wow nice butler made ppi's, good luck finding heatsinks. Check robotunderground. I think he has a few

nutxo · Post by **nutxo** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:06 am

tristan20 wrote:wow nice butler made ppi's, good luck finding heatsinks. Check robotunderground. I think he has a few

lolo. I already have to decide which amps I have to get rid of. Ive bought 4 in the last 2 days to get 2 for a total of five ( theres one in my car already.)

Maybe if the guy has em next week Ill grab one.

Post by **bdubs767** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:00 am

If I thought amp sonic in a car amke a difference @ 30 MPH id so buy those

1moreamp · Post by **1moreamp** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 3:14 pm

Ahh Butler PPI's My good friend Jon used to work for them. I have had the pleasure of working on a few of these. Very nice sounding amps, but very hot from the tubes of course. You will need flat internal finned heatsinks with a bonnet type cover with vent holes to get these working reliably.

LMK if I can be of informative value to you on these glowing wonders of yesteryear......C

Oh how I can tell they are Butler PPI is because PPI used Sanken outputs like the Xenons in these, and Butler used Mosfets that are no longer made. In fact a Xenon sink plate would work nicely if the devices could be made to fit the proper mounting places...

HoseHead · Post by **HoseHead** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:48 pm

Soviets used tubes right up until the curtain fell. Tube fitted hardware will not fail in a nuclear environment. Solid state devices (silicon) becomes inept if radiated. All early MiGs had tube equipment for this very reason, hence their weight and limited performance as compared to an equivalent Western fighter.

Those examples up there are too kewl.

nutxo · Post by **nutxo** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:43 pm

Think theyre worth 200 a piece?

1moreamp · Post by **1moreamp** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:43 pm

nutxo wrote:Think theyre worth 200 a piece?

If I owned a failed Butler PPi amp YES I would pay that price to put them in my cases, But without cases, I just don't know, the cost to build them up custom would place them in the range of NIB cost for these older beauties..