{"id":851,"date":"2018-08-15T20:53:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T19:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=851"},"modified":"2018-08-15T20:53:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T19:53:09","slug":"fpl-valve-mono-fm-tuner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/fpl-valve-mono-fm-tuner\/","title":{"rendered":"FPL valve mono FM Tuner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was liberated from a car boot sale because I loved the look of it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_846\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-846\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-846\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FPLValveTuner.45-1024x319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FPLValveTuner.45-1024x319.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FPLValveTuner.45-300x93.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FPLValveTuner.45-768x239.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FPL Valve Tuner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Other than what you see here I have no idea about it&#8217;s provenance. <!--more-->I have not even connected power yet, because it looks quite dangerous until I give it a certain amount of attention. the previous owner clearly had no such qualms because it came with a bayonet cap lamp connector in lieu of a mains plug. No Earth.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_847\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-847\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-847\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FPLValveTuner.49-1-1024x400.jpg\" alt=\"FPL Valve Tuner\" width=\"525\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FPLValveTuner.49-1-1024x400.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FPLValveTuner.49-1-300x117.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FPLValveTuner.49-1-768x300.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FPL Valve Tuner. rear view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>looking around the back we have five valves. Three are visible in this photo, the other is side mounted in the tuner module.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_848\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-848\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-848\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FPLValveTuner.03-1-1024x702.jpg\" alt=\"FPL Valve Tuner\" width=\"525\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FPLValveTuner.03-1-1024x702.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FPLValveTuner.03-1-300x206.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FPLValveTuner.03-1-768x527.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FPL Valve Tuner. top view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This overview shows the power transformer central, a tuner module on the right and amplifier and filter circuitry along the back. The sockets on the back panel look like aerial in and audio out.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_850\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-850\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-850\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FPLValveTuner.36-001-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"FPL Valve Tuner\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FPLValveTuner.36-001-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FPLValveTuner.36-001-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FPLValveTuner.36-001-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FPL Valve Tuner. Gorler tuning module<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is a close up of the tuner module. It has a mechanical connection to the tuning dial and display via the pulley and cord visible on the left.<\/p>\n<p>This is on the shelf awaiting my attention. it will be interesting to see how it sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was liberated from a car boot sale because I loved the look of it. Other than what you see here I have no idea about it&#8217;s provenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio","category-valves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}