Beard BB100 help

Helping a friend out, he bought this off of me 10+ years ago.

He has taken the valves out and is unsure of the order of them at the front. Anyone remember?

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It’s EL84s x 12 at the rear
The front is 4x ECC81 and 2x ECC82 but I can’t remember the exact order.

He seems to think it was four ECC81 followed by the ECC82 but this doesn’t seem right, assumed it would be mirrored

Does this help.

Found on a google. Looks mirrored with ECC82 on far left and right.

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Yep - the complement was 2x ECC82 and 4x ECC81, but there are no manuals or schematics for these, and a scary number of pics with stuff like ECC83s jammed in them! This with 82s far left and right confirms your pic:

Shame he hadn’t thought of the clever fixed voltage regulator based biassing circuit he used in the P35/II when this amp was designed.

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Wow that’s a great looking amplifier

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I never met Bill - but did meet mrs Beard when she delivered a repair back to me.

Thanks for the help :+1:

Was a good amp, I have fond memories of it, my mate runs it with some tannoys to good effect.

Do like the look of his later efforts, but none of them would work with what I’m planning sadly

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I found a PDF of the service manual on hifiengine.
Can’t upload the PDF here, but create an account, and you can dowload it.

https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/beard/p100.shtml

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Entirely different amp Gregg.


Always regret selling my P35/II, it wasn’t faultless but it was tremedous fun.

None of his designs are terribly reliable - the transformers tend to all be pretty marginal, and some of his ‘auto-biasing’ solutions are not, and would have been better with biasing pots.

Didn’t help that he sold the company to a total assclown who made it his life’s work to ensure nobody could get their old amps fixed unless through him, and he himself mostly took people’s ££££ and sat on the amps for years or bodged them.
He also wouldn’t sell people schematics for any amount of money.
i.e. the usual brain-damaged basket-case that usually gets involved in hifi at a professional level. (Yeah. I know.).