Layout advice for my 1st GC.

[snknby123]

Yeah I saw those exact pics but just wanted to be sure before I burnt something up.

hopefully have it wired up by this evening. I post some pics.

Thanks

[snknby123]

ok now I can't seem to figure out the secondaries. It's not clear in your picture where the wires go and I have 2 rectifier brds.

I am using two rectifier/PS brds. I have the chipamp PS brd. that has (2) AC1 and (2) AC2 connections.

Acording to my xformer schematic shouldn't I use blk/orng to AC1 and red/yellow to AC2?

thanks

-BB

[snknby123]

here's the power supply schematic

[lgreen]

maybe you don't want to tie those secondary wires to ground just yet. did you look at this manual? It may help. I think I modded all my PSupplies to use only 4 diodes, instead of the 8 they have...but I can't remember without going to look again.

[snknby123]

Just wanted to give an update.

Received replacement toroidal transformer and used the light bulb and all was well. Both secondary voltages were good. Hooked it up to amp brds and tested my cheapy speakers then on to my main speakers.

I'm impressed with the sound compared to my old ONKYO M-5140 100W 2ch AMP which actually was not too bad.

Unfortunately I have the dreadful "Hum" coming through the speakers.

I think I will start a new topic for this hum issue with the details. I have done alot of searching and reading and tried various remedies to no avail.

Thanks everyone for your help!

-BB

[juluska]

If you have HUM problems and you have followed chipamp.com instructions to build the amplifier, first of all you must probe is to use shielded AC cables, shielded RCA cables and to connect the amplifier, preamplifier (if you have it) and cd player to the same wall outlet.