February 10, 201511 yr What's the project we can peek at the lower left corner of your picture ? At that time I was working on the Krell clone.
March 1, 201511 yr Foo! Mistakenly swapped +/- on one of my boards... Fortunately I caught it quick and only the opamp and 7915 smoked. Was a slow day so I decided to do some chassis work and biasing.
March 1, 201511 yr if you use molex connectors is it possible to make cables without a crimper or some other specialty tool?
March 1, 201511 yr if you use molex connectors is it possible to make cables without a crimper or some other specialty tool? Yes.
March 1, 201511 yr Not much experience with Molex, but I have used equivalent JSTs quite a bit (VH, XH, PH types etc.). With a bit of care then they are quite easy to solder (as long as you have something that can hold the connector) and a needle-nose plier is then all that is needed to shape the connector to fit in the housing. However, cripting is still a bit easier so on a trip to Japan last year I bought one of these. That will crimp most of these connectors without the need for a dedicated tool per type. Quality is quite good although I can't comment on how long it will last. //UFN
March 1, 201511 yr I have those for my pinball machine boards. I might try those on my next build. One reason I never use those terminal blocks, much preferring these
March 1, 201511 yr I usually crimp with something similar to what UFN posted, shape with needle nose pliers, check the fit, then solder them. Once done, with the keyed housings, it is impossible to fuck up when plugging in. Of course if you use 3 pin for both power and signal or something else, you need to watch that or mark them somehow.
April 9, 201511 yr Hi All, I'm new to Dynahi and hope to learn a lot from here. My last amp built was the bottlehead crack with speedball add on. I've recently purchased a prepopulated balanced Dynahi board with 2 sigma22 power supply. It's never been powered on so I'm trying to find where is the reference of voltage check measurement for the board? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been reading the thread but couldn't find it. I might missed it. the board I'm getting is from this design http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/boards/dynahibalbjt.PDF
April 9, 201511 yr Try posts 312, 315 and 319 and around that area. You do realize that a single balanced dynahi board is 1 channel (+ and -)? Hope you got two boards...
April 9, 201511 yr Thanks parse I'll check those post out. Yes you're right its 2 amp board and 2 power supply board
April 9, 201511 yr because I'm being picked on elsewhere for using obsolete components... surface mount versions of the dynahi in the boards directory. smt pzta56 and pzta06 replace mpsw06 mpsw56 ssdynahibalsmt.zip ssdynahibalsmth.zip second one is on board heatsinks
April 10, 201511 yr Looking for a case Idea. What do you guys think putting the Dynahi Balanced in a well ventilated acrylic case? is it a bad idea? Looking for a budget way of making the case and acrylic seems to be the cheapest way since I know someone who has a laser cutter.
April 10, 201511 yr there is no functional difference in the new boards, just for people without the mpsw parts probably lots more surface mount updates on everything else soon. the idea is 100% mouser available parts
April 10, 201511 yr using modushop cases you should be able to find something that fits whether it's the offboard or onboard version
April 10, 201511 yr new feature for the freaks over there that don't like square corners... all board files with "m" at the end have mitred corners. I don't see the difference, but it only takes a few seconds to convert.
April 10, 201511 yr Yeah, I'd love to hear about the influence of right angle traces at these frequencies. Seems a bit like Ray saying you need thicker wire for the bass molecules to get through...
April 10, 201511 yr so far total length difference on the longest trace is .3 inches works out to about 100 picoseconds. if I was doing work in the 100mhz to 1ghz range, it would make a difference.
April 11, 201511 yr Sadly not, they bounce around the long wires and suffer impact damage as they hit other molecules which makes them smaller. It's a real problem...
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