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It's basically the same as you did.

Day-night temperature difference at Curaçao is 4-5 degrees celsius.
Day temperature tomorrow will be 32C, with a 7mph wind speed.

Power amps inside would load hvac higher, or require to have aircon running.
But there's always wind on the island, and always blowing from the east, very little variation in the heading.

The solution is a modular power amp, as yours.
Front-end module inside the house, heatsink with output-stage outside, only requires a hole and sockets with the right terminals/connectors on both sides of the wall.

Additional plus is that the power amps need not be heat savers, but can be class A.
7mph wind speed is 3m/s, more than halves the C/W number of a heatsink with natural convection (~ 0.3 m/s)

The wind isn't always 7mph, can be multiple times that number, and it can turn hurricane grade.
So : folding and rotating heatsink modules, folded-in when not in use, rotating to adjust the angle to the incoming wind.
The hardware is cheap, 2 times a wall-mounted rotating/directional tv-antenna, but without the antenna :clown:

(my compliments for your creativity, Sergiu)
 
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Pitchfork linestage partly populated with the parts I could find in my junk box.
Hope to get the rest of the parts tomorrow. I really hate waiting. :/
 

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CFA headphone amplifier using JFET input (2SK246 and 2SJ103). It inspired by RN Marsh design (a thread here although I did know the exact circuit).

My jfet model in simulation seem not good enough. Some value determine empirically. Now, I use it as pre-amp. It sound very good.

Next time I will try to drive headphone.
 

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Mini Solid-State Amp 6+6 Watt

Today I finished my new fully discrete 6+6 Watt book-shelf amplifier!

I tried to make it as compact as possible with a kind of HAL-9000 look:D
 

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As one would expect I guess.

It is an old-school single supply / current feedback design based on a singleton input stage, a bootstrapped VAS, high HFE drivers and power transistors.

all resistors are 1W metal oxide resistors.
all bipolar caps are Wima / Monacor.
All electrolytic's are Fischer & Tausche

only the transformer is 40 years old;)

transistors:

singleton: BC204B
VAS: BC207B
drivers: BD137-16 / 138-16
powers: BD441 / 442
 
CFA headphone amplifier using JFET input (2SK246 and 2SJ103). It inspired by RN Marsh design (a thread here although I did know the exact circuit).

My jfet model in simulation seem not good enough. Some value determine empirically. Now, I use it as pre-amp. It sound very good.

Next time I will try to drive headphone.

Edit: (a thread here although I did NOT know the exact circuit).
 
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Completed Velleman preamp k8084

Complete preamp .. no hum and sounds really good
 

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I know ... logged on - it is semi-acceptable.
But , without logging on .... just bloated photo's that overwhelm
the monitor. (on a 1440p sxga).
You would have to have a qxga or wqxga to view those natively.
Just makes things harder....get some photo software.

On my last ISP those photo's would of taken 20 seconds to load.

OS
 

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