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The OWC enclosures look nice but are expensive (~$60) vs. competitors. I guess if they actually work... They seem to have discontinued the USB-only ones in favor of combined USB/800 FW or USB/eSata (+$$). StarTech seems to have some decently reviewed offerings; might try one.

Thanks for the rec; I had looked at the mini stack enclosures and thought about going that way, but yeah they are expensive. I went to Fry's yesterday and bought a WD Black 1TB 3.5" for $60 for backup; my previous WD Green 2T crapped out. Nice of it I bought a Sabrent EC-3US25 USB3 enclosure there but I need to return it. It mounts then disappears. The USB connector is flaky. Any recs on USB3 2.5" drive enclosures that you like? I was thinking maybe a Patriot Gauntlet 2 or 3, or possibly a SIIG (of the ones that Frys carries).

Yes, thanks for the info as well. I still kinda miss not having an optical drive, so I am leaning towards buying a Mac Mini format enclosure with an optical drive and the capacity to put another HDD (or more) in it as well. Any recs there would be appreciated as well.

I finally got around to upping the RAM in my 2012 Mac Mini 6,2 to 16G (Crucial had $10 off; I was just going to buy a single 8G stick and run 10G but it wasn't much more to go to 16G). My brother gave me a 250G Samsung 840 EVO SSD to put in it and wanted some recs as to how to go about doing this: Just replace the existing 1T HDD (250G is large enough for me as a single and only drive)?Use an OWC Data Doubler kit and put both drives in?Other?

Happy Birthday Marc!

I would think that it would work fine, though maybe Kevin's attenuator or even Amb's might be a better choice? There is a group buy for Kevin's attenuator about to commence.

Glad you and Allison are OK Bryan! Scary shit, especially when it is that close!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to both of you!

I'm certainly no expert, but the production kgsshv schematic I have shows a pair of 1k resistors R3/R4 feeding the bases of Q1/Q2 (2sc4686a). 180R resistors (R5/R6) hang off the emitters of Q3/Q4 (2sc4686a). Not sure if the 1K resistors you are seeing are R3 and R4 in the schematic? If so and if the current boards match the schematic I have, you don't want to jumper them. Hopefully Birgir or Kevin or someone else more knowledgeable will weigh in here

Happy Birthday Vicki! I second/third/fourth the above on missing your presence around here.

Shouldn't the board layout be fixed to allow the Molex connector to be used? Better connector (locking) than the simple 3M one.

That is massively OCD close enough on output voltage BTW, your meter seems to be missing a knob

Thanks Kevin! At first I did a WTF with the 3 bridges until I figured out why

No, I was referring to the published BOM. I figured leaded caps would work fine for the 4700uf. This is what I think I will use: LGU1H472MELZ and EEU-FM1H221 Silmics are good caps in my experience, so I may just use the Silmic that is spec'd in the BOM.

For the GR LV board (not sure if this applies to the HV as well), I'm not sure why "audio grade" electrolytics were chosen for the 220uf and 4700uf caps (Elna Silmic and Nichicon KS) with 85ºC rating instead of long life higher temp 105ºC caps? Measuring for the 220uf cap, the board allows up to 10mm diameter with 5mm LS. For the 4700uf cap, up to 25mm diameter with 10mm LS (snap-in, though leaded could probably be used).

Thanks. I had figured the 1N4007s were there to protect something, but hadn't ohmed or traced them out yet. And "DOH" on the LED/2K resistors Kevin had noted an updated schematic, but what I see in the schematic posted previously still shows mj15024/15025 TO-3 devices, no protect diodes, etc.

Sorry to hear about your classmate Wayne. RIP. Sad story...

Link the same as the previous? EDIT: Also, a couple of questions: 1) The 1N4007 diodes are not shown in the schematic. Could I use 1N4001/4002 here (have them on hand)? I'll trace them out on the board to figure out where they are, unless they are in the updated schematic. 2) The 2K resistors (R13/R14) and the LED between the + and - output: what is their purpose? I noticed that Kevin had not put the LED in, and others completed boards as well were missing these. A dummy load for testing?

Looks nice Marshall! Good ride?

Yep, that gave me a chuckle this morning

Best thread title evah (IMHO)...

Who is Bascom King? Never heard of him... apparently has/had something to do with Infinity?

NPN MOSFETS? Heh...