kevin gilmore

Its probably about 2 years ago, but it was on the news. Some person people called a vigilante in new york was going around and removing the boots on booted cars. Without anyone asking, evidently just for fun. Did a couple hundred cars. I don't think he was ever caught. But at about $2k per boot, he ended up costing the city plenty. You can now buy a gasoline powered hand held corrundum bladed saw at home depot for less than $200. The thing is that people who don't know try to attack the lock mechanism, which is highly protected. Cutting the pins with the saw is evidently fast and easy. Wear eye protection, the sparks that fly are probably kind of nasty. I don't think that any of those boots would fit on the monster wheels of my corvette. But i don't park anywhere where i could run into this problem. The last parking ticket i got was at least 25 years ago. A couple of people that had their cars damaged by attempts to boot them evidently sued the citys involved and won. lasers big enough to do this are not portable devices. I would think a portable oxy cutting torch would do it, but may have other problems.

absolutely there is. I've seen it done a few times. There was a guy in new york that had a gasoline powered ceramics saw that would rip thru one of those things in about 30 seconds, leaving no damage to the tire or the rim.

measuring the electrical impedance is going to be a major bear. currents are super tiny and the voltages are electronics killers. The best thing could be to make a coil of 100 turns of wire, and put one of the drive wires thru it. Then a voltage attenuator, and a 2 channel sampling device.

Any amp that ipodpj is going to have is probably not Going to like driving balanced and unbalanced at The same time. Bound to cause additional trouble.

stax definitely did not use reed relays. since i don't have one open at the moment i can't pick the exact part they used. But they also used lower voltages too, so if you were to use the stax relay at 450 vac, it might not behave so nice. I use those sealed reed relays at work up to and including about 15kv. (well different models, but the same thing) switching AC and switching DC. work great.

quote by a complete and utter idiot What the fuck does running one balanced, and the other single ended have anything to do with anything, except possibly getting the phase backwards on the hd800's which should cause all sorts of additional problems. And the bit about requiring magic cables is also quite entertaining.

something like this http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/MEDER-electronic/SIL12-1A72-71D/?qs=6LkQJpCWFTifeu4Ctb4tFgDRzs7G8uTK would work on a 12 volt power supply line with a delay.

cheap ceramic discs. Not wimas.

510 ohms in series with .01uf disc cap across the relay contacts.

100 bonus points for the best one liner in a long time.

correct, and you will need 2 of them and they have to be 1kv rated reed relays. Anything else sparks pretty nasty.

This transformer stuff makes no sense and is really pissing me off. The DC current to the amplifier (both channels) is 45ma 70ma AC absolutely should be enough. None of my prototype transformers have ever blown, and some are 3+ years old with lots and lots of use including accidentally being left on for a week. The testing i did for justin's bhse transformer was a 150% overload for 3 days, no problem. Maybe time to find someone to make some R core transformers for us because those are linear windings, not subject to kinks or other issues with winding a torroid.

1) Depends on whether one side of your mains is grounded or not. But generally it is a good idea to have a dual pole switch because that is the world standard. Its all about safety.

Have a happy high calorie birthday

If you ever have to remove a smt device for repairs you risk damaging The board. On the preamp board I have turned the opa1632 into a dip On a smt adapter because some of the chips don't meet dc specs. Nothing wrong with smt to to220 adapters these are the future for stuff like this An all smt stax amp will never happen because the resistors can't handle the voltages.

surface mount. But sooner or later we are going to have to make adapter boards to use these parts.

BD139

this is the mouser part number 532-CLP212G

Buy the ohmite clip that is designed for the heatsink You also need a thermal insulator because the tab is Electrically hot. Will post the part number later.

it should come as no surprise that only the 2sa1968 actually performs perfectly at 450 microamps. http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/megatron.jpg place for the 330k resistors also left there.

Inu must be playing with spice yes it would have to be a 2sa1968, because nothing else is stable at 500 microamps. or a 2sa1486. The 10m90s won't work. Actually the real number is 450 microamps. Neither of these are in current production. Could probably get away with ksa1156. dn2540 also won't work because leakage at likely temperatures is more than 500 microamps. and with the 12ax7 in the first stage, the gain is a bit high at 65db. so i'm playing with a 12au7 at the moment. brings the gain down to 52db. removing the pot probably does not help with the space needed for the current sources. We will see...

not unless people let me make the board bigger.

Biirgir is going to do the prototype run very soon

27 ma per tube is exactly correct. The teflon octal sockets on ebay are about $10 each the teflon 9 pin sockets seem to be about $12 each likely way cheaper overseas. Not sure how much the capacitors are. maybe about $600 in parts total including the power supply, not including the transformer or the tubes.

Does more than 1 count? 3 of the 4 units that were built by the one guy (i forgot already) work, i'm not sure who owns them. The 4th unit is erico, and his should be fixed soon. I know there are a few units overseas already, don't know those people either. i get a bunch of thankyou's in emails, but usually can't put the avatars and names together.