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johnwmclean

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  1. There is no generic or universal enclosure as such.

    I recommend having a look at modushop, the pesante dissipante range could be the ticket. But you’ll need to tap heatsinks and drill holes for the panels. Modushop customise as well, so you could have everything done there from your drawings. eBay is another good source for enclosures.

    Front Panel Express is a great company for getting drilling of your panels done, you need to work with their proprietary  software which is downloadable and fairly easy to use.

    Unfortunately none of this is cheap...

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  2. I dialled back the bias from 20mA to 17.2mA, installed a 562k resistor in parallel over one of the 175k resistors and achieved 24.8V bias voltage across the 20k resistor and Vce of the PZTA42 is 13.25V. Thanks to simmocon on this for the ground work for the 400V Carbon! The offsets on troubled board (after dialling down the bias) drift slowly down from around 5V. Still not sure why at 20mA bias I was getting no drift, I’ll leave that a mystery.

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  3. 19 hours ago, mwl168 said:

    I am theorizing that if the amp has oversized heatsink that barely gets warm the offset may drift much less. But this is just a guess. 

    And that makes sense. But doesn't explain in my instance why 2 identical channels on the same sized sink have very different thermal drift outcomes. (1 channel has an offset of under 1 volt and stays there and the other channel is around 13V and slowly drifts down to under a 1V in around 40min.

  4. Great reporting Simmconn, I’ll be very interested in a follow up of where you end up after dialing back.

    One channel of my latest build has little to no drift at all (no servos installed), which is odd behaviour from my experience.
    After 45 minutes warmup offset and balance can be trimmed to under 1VDC.
    From a cold start everything is now under 1 volt and stays that way. I’m curious as to the reason, do I need fix or leave as is? 

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