these values are just fine. no need to case them for settling, its the elcaps forming (the voltage across them is fixing the little holes in the oxide, which is the cause for the leakage currents that elcaps tend to show fresh out of the bag).
One could just plug in the caps to a LM317 and live them under charge at nominal voltage while soldering the other components
This would save loads of time fiddling with the offset...
And will form caps faster
If someone wants to DIY a thing that is so complex as this one, he absolutely needs a scope. DMM is good quite for nothing, it is only an elementary tool. Don't believe those who tell you that as a DIYer you do not need a scope.
You do not need to buy an expensive instrument. It can be just a USB device like this:
USBscope50 1Gsps/75Mhz USB pen-style DSO (Digital Storage Oscilloscope), Synchrotech
But even stand alone instruments are not expensive:
Uni-Trend Group Limited
Every serious DIYer should have a scope, otherwise his results are just accidental.
You do not need to buy an expensive instrument. It can be just a USB device like this:
USBscope50 1Gsps/75Mhz USB pen-style DSO (Digital Storage Oscilloscope), Synchrotech
But even stand alone instruments are not expensive:
Uni-Trend Group Limited
Every serious DIYer should have a scope, otherwise his results are just accidental.
great work.
Hi Alfred, after a couple of days. The voltage at pin 6 of IC still measures about +5V, and the voltage at test point of 6800uf cap is about 5V as well. Dc offset still wandering +/-200mV, the VASCL about 14.54, R5 about -0.6V and+0.5V. I tried to fired it up and running into noise issues- looking into grounding scheme. Do i need to look into the input transistors?.
Quan
