Awesome! I'll need to check that out. I already wired up the stock pot, which is fine as I'm wanting to do a comparison between a complete stock K-12 to whatever modifications follow, just so that I can enjoy the upgrades (and money is tight anyways!!!).
I had a bit of a dilemma though- my original idea of using a speaker box as a case has fallen through- I canned that idea just because of issues that I know would arise with grounding everything out, spacing inside of the box, mounting the audio ins/outs on crappy 30 year old MDF that's flaking away, and so on. Luckily I had some leftover 20 gauge aluminum sheets that were godsend last night. 28x18cm (roughly) with 8cm wooden dowel legs and rubber base pegs- still mounted the transformers/board on the underside, tubes up top- speaker out is bolted through the chassis straight onto the board (grounding out - and insulating + obviously). Ohmed everything out to make sure my grounds are in check, and tested all the caps to make sure they're within range, along with checking the resistors.
VERY close to finishing the initial stages of the amp up- MAINS plugs came in- how do people cut out the opening? That's pretty much where I left off at last night just because I wasn't sure how to cut out the opening and I was already a couple of drinks in
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REALLY need to get some of the pictures off my camera. Once I test the amp and get to listen to it a bit, the whole thing will come apart once more so that I can HAND polish the aluminum face. Other plans are to build a 2cm thick oak board surround so I can get some VU meters installed
- Ahhh, need to get cracking on all this fun stuff!
-AJ
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