Dx Blame ST - Builder's thread - post pictures, reviews and comments here please.

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Please stop this idle talk!

Take a look at this beautiful PCB, METAL designed, instead:

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and order the components needed and begin to build the DX Blame.
You will be rewarded with the most beautiful sound you ever heard.


Best regards - Rudi_Ratlos
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I apologise for the little sidetracking, the pcb does look very good and well designed, metal did a fine job, congrats.

Nevertheless, Carlos suffers from anti-intellectual attitudes stemming from social anthropology, look it up in psycology manuals and members here should not have to tolerate or bear the grunt of this behaviour , he needs some serious help I hope he gets to realise this.
 
These holes aside the power transistors dear Rudi

are these optional to assemble power transistor below the board?

I think so...very clever decision from you and Omar...i really could not see these details when inspecting the board.

You include side holes for screws to... this seems optional not to hold the board by a "L" shape adaptor.

Congratulations Rudi and Omar.

You have made a really great job.

regards.

Carlos
 
Homemodder, i do have Psychologist already...we all need that

in special when we go to reduce stomach.... do not worry, i already have an expert to take care of me and do not need your help.

Off topic Syndrome and impositive consultancy is also a disease.... falta de desconfiômetro também. (lack of self evaluation,self criticism capacity)

The thread is for builders..will not read or answer you anymore...as you want, together other green folks, to deviate the thread's North.

You have entered the ignore list not to bother or waste my time discussing with you.... i have more pleasant things to do, alike take care of my own business.

regards,

Carlos
 
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in special when we go to reduce stomach.... do not worry, i already have an expert to take care of me and do not need your help.

Off topic Syndrome and impositive consultancy is also a disease.... falta de desconfiômetro também. (lack of self evaluation,self criticism capacity)

The thread is for builders..will not read or answer you anymore...as you want, together other green folks, to deviate the thread's North.

You have entered the ignore list not to bother or waste my time discussing with you.... i have more pleasant things to do, alike take care of my own business.

regards,

Carlos

:D:D:D:D

Serious now Carlos get yourself some help, here in Portugal as you know we have thousands and thousands of brazilians, many of which are being professionally helped for this specific problem.

Have a nice day.
 
:eek:Wow. I go to work for one day and come back here to see a Carlos bashing thread started which is absolutely *&%^ing ridiculous. As the first person to comment about using an Ipod with the beautiful Blame ST amp I now wish I didn't mention it at all.
At all times when Carlos has replied to my questions regarding help with building this amp he has provided very curtious response, very helpful detailed responses and has always had a very nice cheerful manner about him. Having read many of his posts I have come across none that are written in an arrogant manner at all.
All I can see is a man who is passionate about his lifelong hobby, his family and his country (who isn't?).
Keep up the good work Carlos and don't let a few bad egg's bring down this highly informative thread.;)
This has concluded my talk. Now as soon as more parts arrive I will continue building.:)

Regards
Simon
 
I already have a Psychologist.... you have not readed

So, i have a psycho support my dear.

Here we have also thousands of Portuguese having assistance too.

You should ask for help too.... will increase your reading habilities,to read the thread tittle and what people is posting.

You are absolutelly off topic related the thread and the forum...we are DIY forum....where people goes building and not evaluating or giving opinions to the ones really works...if you have anything better to do here, than find another route my dear...there's no obligation to you to be here... there are hundreds of threads with non sick people there...and you are here...in a place you do not aprove the thread opener, in a place you dislike and do not aprove the technicall ideas and the behavior...so..in may point of view, you are imposing your presence here, and the intention is to bother.

If you start, one day, to build....i will notice and will come to help if you need...but i really think you will never do that..it is easier to do nothing.

Final conversation with you.... if one day you start to behave alike a real diyer... you will have my attention back again.

regards,

Carlos
 
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Dear Carlos,

beside the beautiful DX Blame PCB Omar and I also layouted and distribute a "Speaker Protection" - circuit PCB.

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It is a very tiny PCB: 70mm x 35mm.

Its function is to insert some (2 - 5 seconds) delay after the mains is switched on (give the transformer and PSU some time to settle),
disconnect the speaker from the AMP immediately after the mains is switched off and protect it from DC.

This is part of the circuit, representing a "highpass": DC detector.

An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.


What voltage must capacitors C1 and C1* withstand if they are mounted back-to back?

My knowledge says: "100µF/16V" types are sufficient".
Metal doubts this.

Can you please answer my question?

Best regards - Rudi_Ratlos
 
Passionate... a real diyer..the one that works hard..one guy that cooperates

Someone that does not let beginners abandoned..the one support and help beginners even if they want to use Ipod (ahahahahah!)...so, above my own preferences...exercising tollerance with friends...accepting their own decisions.

I am really this one.... with hundreds of threads and millions of hits...more than 400 hundred guys building or built my amplifiers....inside a DIY forum...doing exactly what the forum ask us to do, or suggest as to do..the fourm tittle is Do It yourself.

You see, people that are off topic...doing different things...people that had in their imagination they are special because have readed a couple of books everyone can read..that studied in colleges everyone can study...and decided to behave alike Consultants, dreaming they are so good that way.....in my point of view, someone that is consultant inside a forum is unemployed, as have time to spend this way.

Doing nothing or anything....just flying over alike that bird uses to eat dead animal flesh...waiting for a chance to see something strange to criticise..to be negative, to attack and to bring disconfort creating unpleasant moments to everybody that read the thread... filled with envy, trying to produce a mess....to reduce the importance of the ones really works.... or to have a minute under the spot light.

I suggest these folks, if they have anything better to do, not to do here...or not to come here to do nothing...to find their own north and to work for the forum, at least once in their lives.

If they are competent, skilled and good folks..them prove that..open a thread..develop something, produce prototype, produce layout, produce schematic, assist people to build..do something!

Forum is free..so i cannot select (for a while, forum will change one day) people that post here...but i am free to say what i like and what i dislike,to be super kind with the ones are fine and to be less kind to the ones are not fine.

From time to time they appear.... the dark side people.....they dive from the hell skies and land to bother.

The ignore list is a forum feature, we can use it...the ones does not appreciate my threads have no obligation to come here...they come because have other intentions...also i can use, and i am using, to not read people that for sure has no good intentions here..so..they can post whatever they want and moderators will take care of them.

Thank you niss_amp..... they are only few guys..... soon they will not be here...not being confortable they soon will go away..forum has thousands...and the majority likes me and visit the thread and support me....i do things and do not go to other threads to mess with other guys business.... ihave better things to do..i am busy helping...they are busy bothering.

regards,

Carlos
 
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The most interesting thing folks..is that confusion, some mess

some fight...this increases hits..ahahahahahah:):):):):)

Look how many hits we gonna have because this little talk and little figth.

Note the hits..observe them increasing...people loves too some figth.

Will post a very disgusting expression.... as this thread is not having too much hits.

Moderators use to be out, part of the time, during weekend...the bad identification flying objects use to come during weekend too..hehehehehe.

You're playing my game not so kind folks...this is advertising to me!

Man, this picture is awfull.... i have made tenths of pictures to capture that arrogant and disgusting expression....aaagh!

regards,

Carlos
 

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My best dream is to produce an Ipod sensor, to shut down the amplifier when someone tried to use such kind of audio sources with it. (Ipod repeller)

ahahahahahah!

regards,

Carlos

I believe I have found the ipod sensor you are after Carlos. I am not sure about how to connect him to the amplifier though? Maybe 50k pot, maybe 100k pot, or maybe just a big bloody chain.:happy2::happy2::happy2::happy2:
YouTube - Worlds Longest Throw Ever with an iPod-154yards?
 
A worst case scenario would suggest that the amp provides the full rail voltage constantly, thus confronting the series of C1 and C1* with this voltage.

The Electrolytic Capacitor model I know suggests it behaves like a diode in reverse polarization, so only a little voltage will drop, leaving almost the whole voltage to the other cap. In conclusion both caps have to be able to withstand at least the full rail voltage in this configuration.

If the supply were to be disconnected as soon as a fault condition is detected, the requirements on the caps voltage could be more relaxed. But I don't see this is the case here.
 
I just tested two caps in reverse polarisation in series with a 13k3 resistor connected to my lab-supply.
The diode model seems to apply.
The "breakthrough voltage" of the diode behaviour is spreading somewhere across the 0V < 10V segment.
I had one Cap (22µF rated +35V) saturating at -8V and another (220µF rated +40V) saturating at -4V.
 
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:eek:Wow. I go to work for one day and come back here to see a Carlos bashing thread started which is absolutely *&%^ing ridiculous. As the first person to comment about using an Ipod with the beautiful Blame ST amp I now wish I didn't mention it at all.
At all times when Carlos has replied to my questions regarding help with building this amp he has provided very curtious response, very helpful detailed responses and has always had a very nice cheerful manner about him. Having read many of his posts I have come across none that are written in an arrogant manner at all.
All I can see is a man who is passionate about his lifelong hobby, his family and his country (who isn't?).
Keep up the good work Carlos and don't let a few bad egg's bring down this highly informative thread.;)
This has concluded my talk. Now as soon as more parts arrive I will continue building.:)

Regards
Simon

Simon there is no Carlos bashing going on, Carlos is the one bashing members like Andrew T, me and others for giving correct technical info, instead of warning of the dangers of some of his schemes, if you could read portuguese and go over to the brazilian forum youll notice he does this there too. Surprised ??, yes I have also been a member there for a long time and have many friends and acquaintance there. They complain about this behaviour too.
 
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Well dear niss-man.... i have tried to explain and will do it once again.

Follow this schematic.

I have tried Ipod in my amplifiers....i have tried the earphone output and the line out.... i found not so good as other audio sources.... then, of course, i have tried to match the impedance perfectly.... i was thinking the impedance mismatch was the problem.... was not!... the audio quality is very good, but not so good as DVD output audio jacks...or CD player line out jacks.

So... has not my total approval, as i know (i do not think so..i have tested and compared) you will have, as a final result, worse quality than you could have using other audio sources..so..you gonna evaluate the amplifier that received a sabotage..the audio quality cannot be better than the audio souce quality..if audio source reduces quality, amplifier cannot make miracles.

Maybe filters inside the Ipod..the earphone jack, naturally has filters to equalize to the earplugs...i do not know the hardware problems.... i know the audio quality result only.

I will be more happy to close this subject as soon as you understand what to do my dear...this is attracting the theorists...i really dislike these guys...as they are searching for lices over a bald man's head....there's no lices when you have no hair..so..searching for nothing..wasting our time.

Do the standard way.... this way they will go away...install the pot alike the ancient way...be beloved amplifier will face that in your special case to them to go on...this is the point they have to support them to be here...

WAS MODIFIED FOLKS!... so you are free to go!

Modification is only for you... to extinguish the fire only.

regards,

Carlos
 

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