Everything posted by kevin gilmore
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KG Balanced Dynahi build discussion thread
.75V
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Part Sourcing Assistance/Advice Thread
it was a greenlee, I had to order it from Newark and it came from Germany. it was about $200. birgir has one too, (and he posted pictures of the one he broke) so he can dig up the part number easier.
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The Multi Amp aka Dynalo Mk2
that is too small. 40 inch seems about right. the Phillips sure is close. would like an oled, but that is probably not going to happen in smaller sizes.
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Part Sourcing Assistance/Advice Thread
I have D punches and the IEC punch. yep they deform the metal but only on one side, so you make sure the other side is the outside. wrapping the die in some electrical tape along the surface helps making no marks.
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The Multi Amp aka Dynalo Mk2
so there were problems with the golden reference board, plus I added another stage to bring the noise down to 1.2 nanovolts peak to peak. (the 120hz is now at the rest of the noise....) PLEASE CHECK THIS! before I make boards that I have to throw out. http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/goldenreference.pdf http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/goldenreferenceboard.pdf http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/goldenreference.jpg The 47uf caps are tantalum but the lead spacing is right
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and now for something completely different part 3
don't know yet. with the he1000 coming out, all this power is unnecessary and the ssdynalo works great. the no feedback part is sweet however.
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The Knuckledragger 3rd Memorial Slow Forum Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O3XyDLbaUmU
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The Multi Amp aka Dynalo Mk2
version 8 are the boards i am getting next week. no reason to update that. version 9 has a bit more heatsink on the outputs, otherwise identical. will do the dynahi soon
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The Multi Amp aka Dynalo Mk2
latest posted kgdynalobal5,kgdynalobal7,ksa5pssmall,goldenreference have ground planes on both sides. the first 2 were updated today. kgsshvpssic also has ground planes on both sides. 2 of birgir's latest boards have the same thing. all the above now have teadrops making the holes more reliable. grass does not grow under the feet of the stax mafia as you get older you need a bigger monitor. so getting a uhd display that is 28 inches from my current 32 inches is clearly the wrong direction. same thing with horsepower
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The Headcase Stax thread
really think that HIfi Nutter really needs to go and buy a liquid lightning and go over to changstar
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The Multi Amp aka Dynalo Mk2
if helps to have a bigass monitor. (32 inch, 2.5k) but its no longer enough, i need a 4k monitor thats about 40 inches for my desk. 60hz and the video card that goes with it. any suggestions?
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The Multi Amp aka Dynalo Mk2
yep i fixed it. one of the caps was not working because the ground was not hooked up. highly unlikely that anyone would know, but easy to fix. everyone with those boards should add the jumper. how I found it was I was working on adding more area to the heatsink on the surface mount board and saw that the pin was not connected. what I could do now is add some ground plane on the back of that board like I have done for the others. lower impedance ground means even less noise
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Megatron Electrostatic Headphone Amplifier
birgir bought 100 feet of fancy high voltage wire. he wanted to buy 300 feet, but that was way over the maximum size and weight limit for shipping.
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Part Sourcing Assistance/Advice Thread
the reason why those power outlets are done that way is for europe and 220-240v where both lines may be hot WRT ground.
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Megatron Electrostatic Headphone Amplifier
found this one yesterday, the 4 cathode caps for the outputs... same deal with the power supply, they could possibly short to ground, so either lift the caps a bit, or remove, put some kapton on the board and put the caps back. although no one has had this problem yet. updated board file has this fixed.
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The Multi Amp aka Dynalo Mk2
the original and the boards i'm getting from birgir soon have one land missing from the 4.7uf cap to the right of the input connector. Jumper the ground line to the electrolytic next to it. board files updated. after i verify the surface mount boards work, i will have 2 sets of extra boards if people want them, also one set of boards with the mpsw parts.
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i'm on a roll... the kgsshv
as long as the heatsink is big enough, that should be fine, and put the power supply on the other heatsink. its still going to be a fairly big box
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kgst
i hope you don't have any cats.
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i'm on a roll... the kgsshv
its a to246, so it would have to be a different heatsink, and a different footprint
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i'm on a roll... the kgsshv
2 amp boards on one side, the power supply and transformer on the other side
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i'm on a roll... the kgsshv
http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/kgsshvpssic.jpg good for at least 100ma on each rail with enough heatsink
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i'm on a roll... the kgsshv
new power supply, 100ma version angle bracket sicfet pass transistor coming for the higher power applications.
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Blue Hawaii Special Edition
that's what Justin gets for using quality made in usa circuit boards. time to use the Chinese crap.
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The Multi Amp aka Dynalo Mk2
updated ksa5 small board and golden reference changes from the original, on board heatsinks, darlington outputs and lt1021 as the reference, 10V which makes a difference too. http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/goldenreference.jpg http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/boards/goldenreference.zip
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The Multi Amp aka Dynalo Mk2
actually the golden reference regulator does perform slightly better than the krell supply with a couple of changes. (lt1021 and dn2540 replacing fet and lm336) krell supply is about 2 microvolts of noise at 500ma, the golden reference is 90 nanovolts of noise at 500ma. if people want, I can turn the krell supply into the golden reference, but still with the on board heatsinks. definitely will cost a fair bit more than the Chinese version.