Getting started with DIVO TubeSync
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Getting started with DIVO TubeSync
This sticky refers to the tube/valve optimization device, the Orange OV4 TubeSync. I'm going to try to put all of the information available in this sticky to help you.
One very important consideration: you will probably have to remove the chassis (slide it out) to fit the DIVO tube/valve sockets and tubes/valves in. There is very little clearance between the top of the tubes/valves and the head sleeve. I was able to fit the tubes/valves into the DIVO socket and then angled them in on my OR80M because it has slightly more space than recent amps. I'm talking 3/8 of an inch.
Remember, amplifiers contain voltages that could kill you so be careful not to touch anything inside the amp.
Manuals can be found here:
DIVO OV 4 Manual
DIVO Installation Guide
Bias Runner Information card
Software is available for both PC and Mac. Contact Orange if you need the Mac version.
It is vitally important that you do not have the amp on or plugged in when you hook up your computer to the DIVO.
Here's what they look like installed on the back of an OR80M and an AD140TC:
One very important consideration: you will probably have to remove the chassis (slide it out) to fit the DIVO tube/valve sockets and tubes/valves in. There is very little clearance between the top of the tubes/valves and the head sleeve. I was able to fit the tubes/valves into the DIVO socket and then angled them in on my OR80M because it has slightly more space than recent amps. I'm talking 3/8 of an inch.
Remember, amplifiers contain voltages that could kill you so be careful not to touch anything inside the amp.
Manuals can be found here:
DIVO OV 4 Manual
DIVO Installation Guide
Bias Runner Information card
Software is available for both PC and Mac. Contact Orange if you need the Mac version.
It is vitally important that you do not have the amp on or plugged in when you hook up your computer to the DIVO.
Here's what they look like installed on the back of an OR80M and an AD140TC:
Re: Getting started with DIVO TubeSync
Hi, i have, unsuccessfully, been trying to find online one of these ov4. Can anyone recommend me where to look.
Thanks.
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Re: Getting started with DIVO TubeSync
Where are you? If you're in the USA, I would contact Humbucker Music....rocaste1 wrote:Hi, i have, unsuccessfully, been trying to find online one of these ov4. Can anyone recommend me where to look.
Thanks.
Re: Getting started with DIVO TubeSync
If your in Canada
http://www.axemusic.com/store/search.asp,
http://www.tundramusic.com/search.php?s ... vo&x=0&y=0
Any Authorized Orange Dealer should be able to get you one.
http://www.axemusic.com/store/search.asp,
http://www.tundramusic.com/search.php?s ... vo&x=0&y=0
Any Authorized Orange Dealer should be able to get you one.
Re: Getting started with DIVO TubeSync
Hi, can I use OV4 with amplifier which has 2 tubes at output stage only.
Re: Getting started with DIVO TubeSync
Yes you can. There's a model for 2 tube amps. MikeD here on the forum has one installed in his RV50MKll.sq5be wrote:Hi, can I use OV4 with amplifier which has 2 tubes at output stage only.
RV100 MKIII | '75 OR120 | OR100 | OR50 | CS50 | R30H | TT
2 x PPC412
Bax B. | Amp D.
Marshall 1959 HW + 1936V
Fender '65 Super Reverb Reissue
Vox AC30C2X + V212C
Playing Les Pauls and Teles...
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Re: Getting started with DIVO TubeSync
And one of my amps in the first pictures is a two tube model. Same product but different two tube connector.
Re: Getting started with DIVO TubeSync
Yes, I know about OV2 but OV4 is, in my opinion, more versatile. Does anyone know how this equipment regulate bias. How OV4 affects the bias of the tube?
Re: Getting started with DIVO TubeSync
There's no OV2. It's the OV4 with a different tube connector (as bclaire said).
RV100 MKIII | '75 OR120 | OR100 | OR50 | CS50 | R30H | TT
2 x PPC412
Bax B. | Amp D.
Marshall 1959 HW + 1936V
Fender '65 Super Reverb Reissue
Vox AC30C2X + V212C
Playing Les Pauls and Teles...
Re: Getting started with DIVO TubeSync
Propably "true" OV2 is EOL, and OV4 with 2 adapters is replacement of OV2.
Re: Getting started with DIVO TubeSync
Oh, never seen that! I know MikeD's unit had 'OV4' written on the original package.
RV100 MKIII | '75 OR120 | OR100 | OR50 | CS50 | R30H | TT
2 x PPC412
Bax B. | Amp D.
Marshall 1959 HW + 1936V
Fender '65 Super Reverb Reissue
Vox AC30C2X + V212C
Playing Les Pauls and Teles...
Re: Getting started with DIVO TubeSync
not only on the packageBensnake wrote:Oh, never seen that! I know MikeD's unit had 'OV4' written on the original package.
the only difference was that it had "2 valve model" ticked in on the box and there were only 2 connectors
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Re: Getting started with DIVO TubeSync
Right - as far as I am aware, the only difference is a different connector and markings on the box and maybe a label.
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I checked, OV4 does not work properly with 2 tube amp. It detects fault and disables BIAS.
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