My first chip amp

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still looking for some nice knobs in gold

bought some more knobs from a guy who makes repro's from les paul 1950's guitars but they are for 1/8' shaft...
 

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technical

boards from our house supplier...

but regular bridge rectifier...

2 simple trannies from rs, 12-0-12 5 amps

sound is ok, but only for classical, and jazz, nothing else

I used abbot tech trannies (from apexjr. in other projects, and they are better for rock etc... ( more lower) !
Unfortunately they are soooooooooo heavy and chunky, no enlcosre will hold them ....

J-P
 
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Re: technical

uvodee said:
boards from our house supplier...

but regular bridge rectifier...

2 simple trannies from rs, 12-0-12 5 amps

sound is ok, but only for classical, and jazz, nothing else

I used abbot tech trannies (from apexjr. in other projects, and they are better for rock etc... ( more lower) !
Unfortunately they are soooooooooo heavy and chunky, no enlcosre will hold them ....

J-P

I put your pics in my gallery here:
http://www.briangt.com/gallery/nigc-uvodee

Let me know if you have any more.

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Brian
 
and one more for the road

scratch does not seem to be visible without camera...

I am getting letraset in Seattle next week (at UW bookstore)
Seattle art (as advertised in the letraset website should have been an outlet... should have been is the right wording!


J-P
 

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Ok, I'm having a little trouble getting started. There's so many different schematics out there and I don't know which one to use. I'm looking at the one from http://www.vikash.info/audio/gainclone02/

I assume that Cs is the 1000uf capacitor?

Also, over here http://www.geocities.com/rjm003.geo/rjmaudio/diy_gc.html they have C1 to protect my speakers from DC offset. Can I use any polypropylene cap here? I have some polypropylene caps (Panasonic 50V .1uF and Wima .1uF 100V) lying around that I use for headphone amps.

And I can't seem to find what the panasonic 4.7uF Panasonic electrolytic cap is for in briangt's igc user's guide. I mean I know it's for the rectifier bridge, but I don't know where it would be placed in the circuit.
 
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I resurrected this old chassis today for my first LM3886 amp with snubber supply:
An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.


more pics:
http://www.briangt.com/gallery/lm3886amp

:D

This chassis has housed 7 different gainclone amps thus far:
- my first p2p prototype LM3875 IGC amp (lifetime = 3 months)
- my first p2p/perfboard LM3875 NIGC amp (lifetime = 1 month)
- Eric's (ENIGMA) first p2p/perfboard LM3875 NIGC amp (lifetime = 2 months)
- my first LM3875 NIGC with my rev.1 pcbs (lifetime = 3 months)
- my second LM3875 NIGC amp with rev.2 boards and BG STD 1000uF caps (lifetime = 7 months)
- my first LM4780 amp build with the kit (lifetime = 1 month)
- finally, this amp, my first LM3886 NIGC with snubber supply
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=581171#post581171

IGC = inverted gainclone
NIGC = non-inverted gainclone

This is quite a good prototype chassis :D

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