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Esmé and I shared her first four roller coaster rides today.

Joanne was entertaining some book club couples, so I was "forced" to "endure" the following during the course of the meal. Stuffed mushrooms Colorful winter salad Roast tatties Apple crumble It's a tough job ...

Dang I see over a grand fleeing my wallet getting geared up

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I thought it would be fun to document the insane amount of work it will take to turn the Single Power ES-2 into something useful. Now Kevin had done quite a bit of work for me such as fitted new teflon tube sockets and teflon Stax sockets but that still leaves a lot of shit to do. Here is what it looked like when I got it: The wooden front for the amp section was cracked so Kevin threw it out. The weight of just the empty chassis was pushing 24kg so my first decision was to ditch the PSU and do it internally. First up do the back panel: Here is the reason why I don't add RCA's to my amps... Now for the front panel. Mikhail had plenty of very useless holes there for various functions that never worked. This makes things tricky but the front needs to have four 50K pots to adjust the offset of each output tube, two 5K pots with two test points for each to adjust the front end balance. One quad pot as well as a rotary power switch to hide some of those extra holes... Now comes the fun part of cramming power supplies into the chassis...

srmXh the same as the srm212 schematic http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/srm212.gif also this http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/srmxh.jpg yeah i know its old

Interesting. I wonder if anyone buys those. They're nice looking blocks of wood, and the history is neat, but there are more comfortable things to sit on. Off topic, I've been thinking about making a headphone stand in a similar way, using a block of wood at a branch intersection. In addition to poplar, I've got a lot of willow here, and some of it has the diamond pattern, like this.

Plus the ever popular rattlesnake petting zoo.

EOSE2423bicol by drjlo1, on Flickr

I went to the doctor today, and she says my knee is healing just fine. Relieved...

My Mjölnir Audio BHSE has landed and first impression: Audio heaven! Thank you Birgir.

Snake Soup

This depends on the inrush current which is a function of the VA of the transformer and the amount of capacitance in the PSU. My speculation, is that Spritzer oversizes his fuses a bit to not need a thermistor. I use VA/line * 1.33 to size the fuse. Then choose slo-blo. If this works, leave it without a thermistor. If it doesn't, use something like a CL60 for a 300VA or so transformer and adjust up or down from here depending on what sort of capacitance you have. It's a rule of thumb. I like fuse ratings as absolutely small as possible. Some people just keep increasing the size until it works. YMMV.