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I started a GoFundMe for myself. I almost called it, "Help Me Not Join ICE", but there is absolutely no risk of me joining ICE. I'm just like them, except I don't hate immigrants, non-Caucasians, or women. I do hate & rage -- at pedophiles, predators, human traffickers, drug lords, organized crime, scammers and grifters. https://www.gofundme.com/f/nxzsm-help-peter-get-back-on-his-feet/cl/o?utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_dash&utm_content=amp17_tc&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&lang=en_UShttps://www.gofundme.com/f/nxzsm-help-peter-get-back-on-his-feet/cl/o?utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_dash&utm_content=amp17_tc&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&lang=en_UShttps://www.gofundme.com/f/nxzsm-help-peter-get-back-on-his-feet/cl/o?utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_dash&utm_content=amp17_tc&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&lang=en_US&attribution_id=sl%3A5974c743-384d-4b16-bc0e-0f1a102d6f3d&ts=1770472529 Here is the Facebook post, if anyone cares to like/boost visibility/share there: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1E1YCwS6ar/ I realize the last time y'all gave me money may have left a bad taste in many of y'all's mouths, but any spreading of the word would be appreciated. Even a small amount ($13?) would help lend credibility, when strangers later see this.

Looks like they are Canadian, québecoises. I searched it because the guitar fretboard seemed weird, too many frets. It’s microtonal, but probably not all the range.

Only a couple of Frenchpersons would even try this, let alone pull it off.

Way late but I don't get 'round these parts as often as I should. Thank you for the kind wishes. It was a nice birthday.

Posted elsewhere but meant for @Hopstretch who might not go there

30 years since this album, Murder Ballads, came out. 🫣

Better yet... Single Power ES-1 board!! Seriously though, as fucked as the ES-1 and ES-2 were... there was less wrong with the actual circuit than this pile of fail. Let's put build quality aside, the permanent 100V offset, non floating heaters chewing up tubes and some other "minor" issues... they did produce enough volume for a normal listening session.

Continues to be the number one album to fry my brain in an attempt to think straight. The Lounge Lizards No Pain for Cakes. Ex.

wiring the filaments together for the output tubes causes all sorts of trouble. essentially a differential output amplifier with no differential cathode resistors resulting in what should be infinite gain, except not. current sources for the output tubes sure seem to be a 6ca7 with a dn2540 or similar as a cascode current source. first time i have seen a tube and solid state together as a current source. and the input tubes wired as differential amplifiers do not have anywhere near enough gain should a chassis like this show up, i'm absolutely sure i can make a megatronxl custom board fit. edit: this is the current source CCS Circuits | Tubelab

They were a favorite group of mine. The idea of three lead singers was interesting. It made their sound quite varied. They were also one of the first big groups to come to Anchorage. They did a tour of drive-in movie theaters. I couldn't afford a ticket at 11 years of age, but we sat outside of the drive-in and heard the concert as well as saw it.

Chuck Negron had a storied past for sure. He developed a bad heroine habit, was dropped from Three Dog Night, and became a junkie living on the streets for many years. Then he cleaned up and re-joined the group. Kind of amazing. R.I.P. Chuck.

RIP Chuck Negron (3 Dog Night) & LaMonte McLemore (The 5th Dimension)

Sports legend, Detroit Tigers pitcher from the 60s and 70s, Mickey Lolich. He was 85. Most well known for pitching 3 complete game wins in the 1968 World Series, the last two, in Games 5 and 7, were wins over the great Bob Gibson, who had an incredible 1.12 ERA in 1968. Lolich was a somewhat improbable hero, as teammate Denny McLain had won 31 games in the regular season that year, which was the last time that will ever happen. All a bit ahead of my time, as I was a 6 year-old. But I've heard it recounted many times by Tigers fans, not the least of whom is our friend Todd 'the Vinyl Junkie' Green out in Three Forks, MT.

Attached ZIP-file with gerbers, shematics and some 3D views. CFA3smd.zip I’ve used both gerbers when I milled the boards (kitchen made) and that is about three years ago. Board size 160mm x 74mm to fit on Modushop 200mm x 80mm heat sinks. Take a look at the files and see if/how the boards could be a part of your project. I think one should make a few changes to attached gerbers before considering sending them to a fab house.

OK. Did a first power-up test for CRHV today. With 360k set for 550 V, I’m measuring about 554 V in practice. I only let it run for ~10 minutes. A quick IR check shows the CRHV peak temperature at ~58 °C. I suspect running it from dual 250 VAC inputs targeting ~600 V output may result in slightly better thermal behavior. At the moment, only the high-voltage section is populated. The delay soft-start and ±15 V sections are not installed yet, but they should function as expected once added.

Given the number of windings there, it has to be at least a couple of transformers. That is also clearly a Toroidy transformer, based on the color of the wires, and they never do tall transformers, they always just get larger and larger in diameter. That means it could just be transformers in there.

True, I would do independent filament PS for each 300B, probably with LDO. Ad the rest of circuit invisible from bottom - I guess the main HV PS is hidden under cover from top side. There is too much space there only for transformer.

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Yeah I agree but one possible major, major issue... one filament supply per channel for a balanced amp. These are no indirectly heated tubes... the filament supply is the bloody cathode.

For me it is DC heating, look at wires at left bottom 300B, wires come from PCB with capacitors and some silicon under it.