kevin gilmore

Singlepower ran dc filament current all over the boards. Trouble was the significant AC content due to the diodes got into just about everything. The diy T2 does absolutely the minimum amount of filament on the board for this reason.

more fine work by kerry http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/BlueHawaii-AB-T2-Servo-v1-0.zip

First time (well at least so far) that the snow plow has not sent my mailbox into oblivion in 15 years. Sure toasted a few others however. They must have been going at least 30 mph down the street. I have the mailbox on an old single piece of a truck spring, so you whack the thing and it just springs back. Whenever i hear the snow plow barrel down the street, i'm out there 5 minutes later to clean the slush off the end of the driveway before it turns into one solid chunk of ice. The new snowblower i have has this extra feature that turns ice and wet mush into water which it throws out of the way at least 40 feet. Absolutely no problems getting to work and back with the vette the last 2 days.

No... No... Grande Champaigne... The good stuff. Delamain cognac, the 60 year old stuff. Glad my roof is steep enough that the snow does not stick. No way i'm getting up 3 stories...

updated spreadsheet. if there are any other errors let me know. fqpf8n80c... lots in stock at future electronics. If you want to be fancy about it, on the small heatsinks, remove the pins, use them upside down, thread the area on the other side where the pins used to be, and then drill and tap a new #4-40 hole for the transistor. Use ceramic insulator, bushing and stainless screw.

here are a couple more pictures http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/dsc_1799.jpg http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/dsc_1800.jpg

They finally plowed the street, so i'm good to go if i have to. But really a few more hours for the rest of the main streets to be plowed seems prudent.

I'm assuming its acceptable to begin the drinking of the grand champaigne after the blowing of the snow sure hope so even if it is 10am. Had to blow snow 4 times since 2 am. picture at 6am with natural lighting thru second story window. http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/dsc_1792.jpg

18 inches in wheeling, with drifts up to 5 feet high. Took about 2 hours to blow all the snow away. Unfortunately the streets are not plowed yet. Snow day

HR2? design is on headwize

OK, for all that asked, the current board files. Someone should check them to make sure that i did not make any mistakes when i fixed previous errors. amp board http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/staxt2nc3fdh5.zip flipped resistors in servo feedback changed hole sizes on 2sc3381 moved 100k feedback resistor and added compensation caps change pinout for dact power supply board http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/staxt2rev0power1-14.zip backwards diode in low voltage supply correct wiring of 110/220 volt for universal transformers .1uf and 10k resistors in the 4 power supplies. and the multi-page pdf's http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/staxt2nc3fdh5.pdf http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/staxt2rev0power-14.pdf

Although there will not be another board run unless someone else wants to do it, i have fixed the layout to incorporate this and all other fixes. Same with the power supply. If people want, i can post the gerbers.

Yep, and once you terminate the cables in their characteristic impedances, the significant sound differences between even the most different cables become so small that you will have serious trouble telling the cables apart. Something the cable companies obviously do not want to happen as their business will fall into the trash. Also makes it harder for outside interferrence to effect the sound. 50 ohms (or really 46 to 110 ohms) is not a problem for properly designed audio equipment. Even buf634's or the elantec equivalent are actually designed to do video over 50 ohms. Even the toy opamps that drive many headphone amps can drive grado's which are 32 ohms. If the impedance really bothers you, you can always make up some ultra trendy 300 ohm twinline. Made from pure silver, with a large diameter silver shield. Can't do that with OTL tube gear however. Requires a matching transformer.

About 25pf for the fet is right. Add in wire and connector and its 30 pf for sure. There is likely nothing left available in solid state that is going to do any better and still have an extended frequency response. I run a 50 ohm system with 50 ohm correctly terminated cables. The krell stuff is designed for this. So is the Ayre stuff. Anything with significantly lower capacitance has to be tubes.

140 pf load. Which is the 120 pf of the O2's and 20pf for the cable.

So i got around to measuring the prototype. It should be mentioned that there is no attenuator of any kind in the prototype, and any standard potentiometer setup will induce an automatic RC filter at the input due to the capacitance of the input fet. So at 400 volts peak to peak, stator to ground, at 20khz the left channel is .12 db down, and the right channel is .14 db down, and both are down about 3db at about 45khz. Measured with a signal generator with a 50 ohm output impedance. Reference 1khz

You know i'm serious. You have seen the basement in my house. The whole setup in a half high rack on wheels should end up weighing about 300 lbs. Probably less. Generators are about 40 lbs, and the amps are about 85. Looking for standards antenna's now... But i'll probably make them, as the new price on those things is silly.

Lets come up with a standardized testing method How many watts at how many feet. I guess you would have to the same thing in free-field which is more like the real world.

Actually this is possible. I have done demo's on this already. 30 mhz at a couple hundred watts into 3 turns of a coil. Stick tube steak in one end, and it cooks as you push it thru. Bump it up to 3kw and you get burning argon gas. And by radiation i mean broadband RF, 1 mhz to say 1ghz. None of the cable companies are advertising anything related to nuclear radiation. More practical is a desktop lindgreen screen room, and i think i know where to get one of those. Now how to convince all the cable manufacturers who obviously don't want their claims actually tested to fork over some demo material.

So for various reasons that i won't exactly go into, i'm about to have a bunch of surplus stuff looking for an application. A bunch of programmed test sources signal generators. computer controllable. All phase coherent to the master reference source. http://www.programmedtest.com/pts500.html 3 x 1 mhz to 500 mhz generators 1 x 1 mhz to 620 mhz generator with dual outputs that can be inter-modulated 3 x 1 mhz to 300 mhz generators one with dual outputs that can be inter-modulated And some CW capable class A RF power amps 2 x 200mhz to 500mhz 50 watts 3 x 10mhz to 200mhz 300 watts As i said, looking for an application. So i contacted craig who is one of the few people that i can think of who can come up with something creative. (knowing full well that he knows where i got the stuff) So we decided on setting up the stuff in tyll's house. (someone tell tyll) Lots of copper screening on the walls, floors and ceiling all soldered together to make a very nice and radiation proof screen room. I mean tyll clearly needs his demo room to be fully shielded anyway so the aliens don't mess with his brain... The idea is to test all the claims of various manufacturers of cables with respect to their supposed ability to remove RF due to (insert techno babble here). All i need now, are some standard antenna's, and a local oscillator/mixer box (actually already have it) and we can bring it down to baseband, and then tyll's audio precision can measure it directly. Probably don't want to be in the same room at the same time if we are running the amps at full blast. So what do people think?

If you put the screws in from opposite sides, you never have to remove the heatsinks to replace the to220 transistors.

i'll give you ancient and fuzzy pictures... I don't even know what i had for a camera back then, but it had to be grim by today's standards. Here are some fresh ones. http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/kgssorig1.jpg http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/kgssorig2.jpg http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/kgssorig3.jpg no compensation caps on the top. And none on the bottom either, but its hard to take that off because the power suppy is screwed to the bottom. Will measure again, probably tomorrow or wednesday.

Actually the gain of the T2 is 1001. 10100/100

The kgss was designed to european inputs which is .6 vrms input which makes 600 vrms output. A gain of 60db. Or a voltage gain of 1000. 3 people in all of the last 10 years said that the gain was too low, and i told them how to get an extra 6db by swapping resistors. One person said the gain was too high as he listens very quietly and i told him how to change the input fet source resistors to reduce the gain 10db. Sounds like your professional source is way high in output voltage, something like 10vrms and even with resistor changes, this would clip the input stage. So an input attenuator is required. With a shunt attenuator, and the attenuation at minimum, and no input load resistors (depends on which of the many versions of circuit board you have) i'm sure its going to oscillate. The 500k resistors on the new kgsshv board take care of that issue. Not sure about the frequency response, i'm going to have to look up my data, i did not have time to do that last night. If the lack of frequency response bothers you, you certainly could build a T2 which is way flat to well over 100khz.

There are 500k resistors to ground on the board, but still a good idea to short the inputs out, or set the pot to zero.