Dave-W Alright, I have been silent for many moons but soon...soon I shall be playing soul wrenching guitar solos through my newly built amp. I've been waiting for a few components which I got the last of today, major thanks to Karel for putting together an inductor and output tranny for me and to Graeme for sorting me out with my components from Tubedepot! Hopefully I'll have some pics of the chasis for you very soon.
Dave-W Finished making the chasis today, there are no holes drilled in it yet though. Hopefully tomorrow the amp will be done!
Dave-W Its going alright sitting on my desk here in front of me, I have a few more pics to post soon when I have some time. I've had a few deadlines in my work that have delayed me. The amp is about 90 percent done, I need to mount the multi cap and then check all the voltages are correct. Then the biasing and we're ready to rock. Hopefully it will be finished this weekend.
Dave-W I finished the amp this evening. It sounds amazing, much better then I expected! I will be posting pics pretty soon and hopefully some decent quality recordings as well.
Gearhead Yerr, those wires outside the chassis look awful. Can't you mount the trannies differently? Even if you were to open the iron and put the coil the other way around, you would gain a lot. Imagine trying to roll a tube and hit your hand on one of those lugs? Otherwise it looks like a very neat build. Can't see exactly how those twisted heater wires run, this is usually the difference between hummy amp and silent power.
Dave-W They aren't actually bolted down yet it was suggested that I leave them lose to find the best position for low noise. I can flip the mounting brackets around to get the wires to come out the bottom. I will take some photos of the finished wiring to give you an idea, but its pretty silent noise wise. I essentially just looped from one valve socket to the next with as little slack as possible.
