Hallo Jay and camelator.
I have read to late your comment, jay.
My experience with MKP is, if you find a good choice there have a fuller tone mostly combined with dark, silence background.
I agree other give thin, like more transparency tone.
Camelator you have in use/tested russian caps, like KU40, 42, 75-10, MBGO, MBGCH?
Regards Bangla.
Yes, can be confusing.
The heatsinks are extruded in long lengths.
We order up short lengths cut from the long extrusion.
Then we mount them so that the fins stand up and call that the height.
Width is easy. It's always width.
Now for the depth?
That's all about water !
No it's the thickness of the backplate plus the length of the fins and we call that depth. Odd language this english.
Unfortunately,no
Actually I am not sure I need a capacitor here
I am not sure I have DC voltage on the audio signal
Well.... Anyway I have to wait for my PCB and build the amplifier
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Making progress with my next PSU. Running some simulations on it for a CRCLC. Adding some Dx style filters right after the bridge to filter the diode switching noise. Those are hand rolled inductors 18ga (ferrite core) coming in at about 0.5mH. This whole point to point is kind fun for PSU's - certainly more compact than a PCB.
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This PSU uses filter elements similar to the Dx PSU, but I changed it to a 3-bank CRCLC type filter.
The diodes I am using are labeled 10A10 (big fat leads).
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The new PSU works well. With amp connected but no music ripple for 35v is 5mV. It was 36mV with last supply.
Hi XRK, very nice and compact build.... how did you measure the ripple? with DMM or scope? any improvement in SQ with your amps that you built?
reg
Prasi
Doesn't it depend on the saturation current of the particular choke assembly? The material makes a difference - like amorphous nanocrystalline toroids specially designed for 60Hz power supplies? I have those on order and using this for now. But if a choke saturates at say 10amps and I am using it circa 5amps, does saturation still occur always? When does the amp use 5amps DC? That would be a huge transient and the hum blocking doesn't matter anyway.
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Check out some of the advanced core materials from CWS.
CWS Coil Winding Specialist, manufacturer of transformers, inductors, coils and chokes
Thanks for the complement.
It looks like a spacecraft from Star Wars. The diode bridge is soldered in a square frame block and sits on the back. Ahh... I kick myself for selling my analog scope 6 years ago before I got into DIY. This was measured with Fluke 101 in ACV mode.
I noticed a subjective (audible) improvement with reduced low level 60hz hum. Placing my ear against the woofer - I can barely hear hum. Before I could hear it slightly (not terrible by any means). This makes sense as 5mV is much less than 60mV (-20.5dB improvement - my previous post said ripple was 36mV was a mistake, it was 60mV). The rest of the music frequencies are not any different but perhaps there is an improvement in fine details that give better imaging.
I am glad I tried making the PSU as a P2P though as I am looking for a compact format to place in a rather small enclosure with the already very compact stereo FX8 50mm edition.
I tested this new PSU with my new vHEX amp last night (heatsinks came in) and it also sounds fantastic. No audible hum at all with ear pressed to speaker cone.
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/soli...-amplifier-simulated-tina-27.html#post4726680
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You can believe what you want, but if you use the scope to look at the ripple voltage before and after the choke in that PSU you'll see there is no difference, i.e. the choke does nothing.
