Everything posted by kevin gilmore
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Megatron Electrostatic Headphone Amplifier
fqpf8n80c is an insulated part and goes directly on the heatsink and with a metal screw. power supply runs a lot hotter if the unregulated voltage is too high due to the transformer voltage.
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Megatron Electrostatic Headphone Amplifier
seen a bunch of the ones on the left, every one tests as a darlington of about 30 volts if you got them from dalbani, or people associated with them, definitely fakes
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9 pin PC board teflon sockets?
if its for the kgst boards you want the machined ones also from parts connexion you just don't use the chassis strap
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The Headcase Stax thread
Sure looks like a 220V pin. 220V and 230V are the same thing.
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Dynahi Power off noise
unlike a lot of amps, the dynahi will work into a dead short if necessary but if you want, build and install the protector board
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kgst
The failure mode is that the resistors open up, the outputs go to -350V, the resulting bias gets close to 900, and makes the headphones very unhappy.
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The Multi Amp aka Dynalo Mk2
yep
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The Multi Amp aka Dynalo Mk2
its supersymmetry, and the 5k resistors are part of the feedback. if you go with fets you can multiply both Rf and Ri by 10 to increase the input impedance. really does not matter for this. definitely does matter for the input impedance for the ubal to bal converter.
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KG Balanced Dynahi build discussion thread
try doubling the values of the compensation caps
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The Multi Amp aka Dynalo Mk2
yep
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The Multi Amp aka Dynalo Mk2
in balanced mode the gain is Rf/Ri *2 you don't want to change the 5k input resistors, so change the feedback resistors. Unlikely the compensation cap needs to be changed
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The Multi Amp aka Dynalo Mk2
the pot by the led's is the input section offset pot. was thinking about a different board. you can probably get away with 18ma per output transistor.
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i'm on a roll... the kgsshv
when sales of tle ll2t drop to zero. but he is still going to have to do a major redesign to get that to happen
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The Multi Amp aka Dynalo Mk2
you pull the opamps, and start with all the pots in the center. the pot in the middle of the board, you adjust so that the outputs are centered around zero. Then you adjust each other pot to bring that output to zero. then you put the opamps back in.
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i'm on a roll... the kgsshv
now where have I heard that one before?
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Power Conditioners
gfi outlets will not work without a real ground. they work by measuring differential current.
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kgst
that depends on whether the output is true balanced or ground referenced. true balanced may cause interesting dc level issues releated to common mode.
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i'm on a roll... the kgsshv
should work from +/-400 to +/-550
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Power Conditioners
if your water pipes are copper, they are usable as a ground.
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KG Balanced Dynahi build discussion thread
reduce the gain of the amplifier by lowering the feedback resistors
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kgst
for a 10k pot, the series resistors should be 10k, and then calculate the other resistor for the attenuation you need
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kgst
buy the neutrik xlr-male to xlr-female adapters and pick your attenuation and use either 3 or 4 resistors depending on whether the dac is really balanced or not. http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Neutrik/NA3FM/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMv0W4pxf2HiV9y0EyfHsAgRI%2fcUCPoRaKI%3d
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kgst
Which is insanely high, but lots of dac's are doing that these days. You need a 10db balanced pad on the input.
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The ultimate DIY? A Stax SRM-T2!
icarium has one of my cases
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The ultimate DIY? A Stax SRM-T2!
yep that is the one.