Threshold NS10 Lineamp PCB

[Manu]

Is that what you meant concerning the shuntreg?
Manu

This way the board would be 1 mm smaller

[apassgear]

Originally posted by Manu
Is that what you meant concerning the shuntreg?
Manu

This way the board would be 1 mm smaller

Yesssss!!!!

That looks excellent Manolo, well done… and smaller too.

[apassgear]

Aren't you missing the connection to R7?

[jameshillj]

Gentlemen,
Great work, nice board, especially as suitable for +/- and the accompanying "raw supply" pcb.

I would suggest you re-consider the idea of trying to compress the already small pcb - a couple of extra mm isn't going to make much difference if the possibility of slightly larger/better caps will improve it's performance. ( the larger PP's do sound better, but can possibly add them externally to the O/P terminal blocks )

Also, really only need one support on side away from the T0-220 trannsistors side, even if use a "heatsink", and nylon supports for isolation.

On the "raw supply", suggest you fit in a resistor between diodes and ripple cap - not "fashionable" today, but does make a difference and an easy option to include.

Where do you expect the central "Star Earth" to be located (including pre input signal earth, and output) at the regulator input, output or at the raw supply, and do you want to "float this off chassis earth with a resistor, etc on the supply pcb, reg pcb, etc? (ie extra terminals?)

... my 2 cents!

[apassgear]

To use that empty space we have on the board I have prepared a Bonus Raw Supply, Super Compact may I add, which could be quite usable on those tight places we some times run into.

The layout is based on the very small inductor from MuRata 22R473C (DK 811-1293-ND) that Twitchie suggested, in this case I have two of them, one to each leg but you decide to use a jumper on one of the sides.
Rather small caps but enough for some 200mA; on those sizes you may find 2,200 and 1,000uf caps. The rest will be done by the regulator itself.

Manu, your prayers have been answered
Do you think is doable?

[apassgear]

Welcomed James,
Lots of good points there, I don’t want to repeat what I already answered to Dennis (post 382) so the Compact version is just that, for a more universal application that can also be used on tight places.

I agree with you that MKP might be better but we decided the replace these with good quality polyester at the output but retain MKP’s on C1 and C3 that are more important in my view. BTW, Steen has tested these regulators with all polyester caps and found no detrimental issues there, so it might be one of those cases of diminishing returns. And of course we always have the possibility to add external components as mention, cumbersome but doable when we have the space.

We added four holes for support screws in case someone wants to use the power tranies on an upright position; well, 4 fixing point will give more mounting flexibility to use two or more screws, as you already noted the board is quite small.

Diode snubbers have to be tuned to the load you will be using and need some test equipment to do this to get some useful action from them, on my point of view a bit cumbersome. In the other hand the raw supply and the reg board forms a CLCLC filtering (if we count the ferrite bead) which should get rid of RF and nasties from the diode bridge plus the fact that the supply board is separated from the shuntregs, we did this at the early stage of the PCB development just to provide added isolation.

As usual one has to decide where to put the Star Ground and depends on what you will be using these. For a preamp one can send the returns from the regs to the SG and from the preamp itself to the SG…. And float a ground to chassis from the SG the way you prefer.

Cheers

[jameshillj]

Thanks Tony'
Yes, that about covers all the little things quite well and as you said, it is a compakt design and can add some externals if the fancy takes us.
This combination boards is a very neat package and it's quite a lot of work.
Many thanks for your efforts and especially for providing the finished design for a group buy - it is very much appreciated.

[Manu]

Originally posted by apassgear
Aren't you missing the connection to R7?

Nope ... it is just masked by the upper trace between the 2 trannies ...
Manu

[Manu]

Our baby is now full as an egg ..



T0220 diodes freaks : There are extra pins for this purpose on RAW supply kiddoe ... crowded but it should work ...(hopefully)

Manu

James : provided that is doesn't implies too much changes to existing PCBs I can provide a board (as PDF for home etching) which fits your special needs ...

[Dennis Hui]

Menu and Tony,

You guys are great. The bonus supply would be
great for something like the B1 and has much
utility on its own.

I was going to suggest using that PCB space for
making a couple of Diyaudio key chains, but
the supply board is much more useful.

Thanks,
Dennis