| jleaman |
| quote: | Originally posted by eaferrer
Yeah! So you can start giving me a refund now.....
Sonny, |
Should not be to hard. It's not like he has any thing better to do, you know like drive to the post office twice now to send you 2 packages for boards, and more wasted money out of his pocket, i'm sure he will jump on this asap to refund you. |
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| eaferrer |
| quote: | Originally posted by jleaman
Should not be to hard. It's not like he has any thing better to do, you know like drive to the post office twice now to send you 2 packages for boards, and more wasted money out of his pocket, i'm sure he will jump on this asap to refund you. |
Are you Brain? Do you also work chipamp.com? I have already lost my excitement in building his amp, i also waited enough from him to reply to all my emails. I just want my money back.....
Thats it.
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| jleaman |
| quote: | Originally posted by eaferrer
Are you Brain? Do you also work chipamp.com? I have already lost my excitement in building his amp, i also waited enough from him to reply to all my emails. I just want my money back.....
Thats it.
Sonny, |
Fair enough, HOWEVER you still don't know how much time and effort he has put into this, i think it is his time now to spend it with his family after all he did spend 5 years of his life in the basement of his house building kits and mailing them every day, i spend my week there with him working on them too, its not easy some of you may think it is simple, brian has spent more than any ones efforts on doing this let alone all the time.
Personally i think he is still the best person selling kit's however i know he is getting out of it because it takes up to much time and well he does have have a wife that should see his attention. I to have gone this way. It is people like you that show negitive for no reason, i almost garantee you that you will get your kits and then I HOPE you feel bad, the mail system suck's i can't do any thing about it however I CAN GARANTEE that brain said he mailed it out then he did. Oh well i hope he moves away from this mess and pain in the A$$ and continues on to driving track and other interesting things.
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| eaferrer |
Ok,
But still, its not your word of assurance that i wanted to hear ...
It's his predicament and so he should be the one to respond...
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| BrianGT |
| quote: | Originally posted by eaferrer
Yeah! So you can start giving me a refund now.....
Sonny, |
I was out of town this weekend. You should see a refund now in your paypal history. I am sorry for the issues with shipment and the delay. Hopefully the package will still eventually arrive. This is the first shipment that I have ever shipped gone out to Saudi Arabia, and I am unaware of the issues that the country has with customs.
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| shallbehealed |
| quote: | Originally posted by eaferrer
Ok,
But still, its not your word of assurance that i wanted to hear ...
It's his predicament and so he should be the one to respond...
Sonny, |
Regardless, I think you may have just put word out that no one should bother shipping anything to the house of Saud. I hope your neighborhood diyers appreciate that. |
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| patch |
I wish that fellow with the ID eaferrer had just emailed BrianGT privately instead of putting his complaints out in public like this. Delivery problems are normal events in postal systems all over the world, certainly in the USA.
I read those posts by eaferrer as unfair and out of scale to the issue. Harmful words for no good reason. If directed at me, I might see them as vandalism to my property - my personal and business reputations. By posting here instead of in a private email, using the name of a real business entity, the words have the potential to harm BrianGT's long-term earnings. That is a serious matter anywhere one lives.
Moderator, I recommend that you remove those posts above by eaferrer as at the least inappropriate. Please don't leave harmful words standing like that out in public.
BrianGT, I am sure you are very kind and professional would not do this yourself...but if I were you I would take a picture of the postal receipt showing proof of mailing to Saudi Arabia, post it here, and leave it at that. You are credible. But for a sorry few, you just gotta show 'em.
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| jleaman |
| quote: | Originally posted by patch
I wish that fellow with the ID eaferrer had just emailed BrianGT privately instead of putting his complaints out in public like this. Delivery problems are normal events in postal systems all over the world, certainly in the USA.
I read those posts by eaferrer as unfair and out of scale to the issue. Harmful words for no good reason. If directed at me, I might see them as vandalism to my property - my personal and business reputations. By posting here instead of in a private email, using the name of a real business entity, the words have the potential to harm BrianGT's long-term earnings. That is a serious matter anywhere one lives.
Moderator, I recommend that you remove those posts above by eaferrer as at the least inappropriate. Please don't leave harmful words standing like that out in public.
BrianGT, I am sure you are very kind and professional would not do this yourself...but if I were you I would take a picture of the postal receipt showing proof of mailing to Saudi Arabia, post it here, and leave it at that. You are credible. But for a sorry few, you just gotta show 'em.
patch |
I think brian is shutting down chip amp and getting out of this, to much hasle. of course i don't blame him, to much time in and no proffit at all, Personally i dont need to see the recipt, i know for a fact that he mailed them out, when he says he is going to do something he does it. Being in a forgin country DOES not help for this matter.
Brian lost money on this for sure, 2 sets of boards plus shipping and a refund, yeah i can see why he wants out now.
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| edjosh23 |
I would like to add that Brian is definately a stand up guy. When he says he is going to do something he does it. He has helped me many times and taught me a lot. I have helped him get kits ready for shipment, and I agree it is a giant pain. Brian has been doing the community a big favor for years and when I had a problem with my first chipamp, Brian invited me over to look at why it was no longer working and gave me tips. The 16 year old Me was not the best with building circuits.
Thanks,
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| jleaman |
| quote: | Originally posted by edjosh23
I would like to add that Brian is definately a stand up guy. When he says he is going to do something he does it. He has helped me many times and taught me a lot. I have helped him get kits ready for shipment, and I agree it is a giant pain. Brian has been doing the community a big favor for years and when I had a problem with my first chipamp, Brian invited me over to look at why it was no longer working and gave me tips. The 16 year old Me was not the best with building circuits.
Thanks,
Josh |
He welcomed me in his home for 2 weeks, i flew there from Vancouver Island Canada, to stay with him, i helped him with kits also, just seeing and doing all the work was alot, plus alot of planning to get it how it all flowed.
On a side note, ill be visiting there again, except Heather will be joining me :) |
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| eaferrer |
| quote: | Originally posted by patch
I wish that fellow with the ID eaferrer had just emailed BrianGT privately instead of putting his complaints out in public like this. Delivery problems are normal events in postal systems all over the world, certainly in the USA.
I read those posts by eaferrer as unfair and out of scale to the issue. Harmful words for no good reason. If directed at me, I might see them as vandalism to my property - my personal and business reputations. By posting here instead of in a private email, using the name of a real business entity, the words have the potential to harm BrianGT's long-term earnings. That is a serious matter anywhere one lives.
Moderator, I recommend that you remove those posts above by eaferrer as at the least inappropriate. Please don't leave harmful words standing like that out in public.
BrianGT, I am sure you are very kind and professional would not do this yourself...but if I were you I would take a picture of the postal receipt showing proof of mailing to Saudi Arabia, post it here, and leave it at that. You are credible. But for a sorry few, you just gotta show 'em.
patch |
Hi,
As much as i have wanted to reply to your posts privately because i supposed that you really wanted it that way, Your username option doesnt seem to allow private messages. I am not going to make any harsh comment anymore since Brian already acted on what you are stating as my vandalising and harmfull posts. I can only say sorry and to tell you the truth, even up to now, we are still waiting for that package to come.
The main reason why other people (not only me, if you can read other complaints coz its in other forum topic) is pretty clear, im not going to say it anymore.
Dont worry , if the package does arrive, i will pay brian and i will also post the picture image of my order here so that you will know it. But it's better that you allow me to send you the privately ..peace...
TO the MODS,
Please delete all my post after mr. PATCH is finish reading my reply to his post. |
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| patch |
Done, read it. Someone delete please and mostly for eaffer's protection.
I deal with libel and slander matters in my work. Anymore, because these internet words can stay around for years, everyone has to be careful how they criticize. It's just too easy to harm without meaning to.
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| patch |
| quote: | Originally posted by BrianGT
Great!
On a side note, I am out of Aleph boards now and you received one of the last sets.
All current orders for them were shipped out, and I might do order another small batch of boards sometime in the future if there is enough interest. I still have a handful of the PSU boards left.
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Brian |
Brian, I completely forgot. I wanted to register my interest in a 3 or 4 sets of the Aleph boards, if you had in mind ordering up another batch.
Enough demand to justify spending more of your money and time for complete strangers like me, with the risk of no follow-through? All at probably at a benefactor's profit for you<sympathetic weak grin>.
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| BrianGT |
| quote: | Originally posted by jleaman
I think brian is shutting down chip amp and getting out of this, to much hasle. of course i don't blame him, to much time in and no proffit at all, Personally i dont need to see the recipt, i know for a fact that he mailed them out, when he says he is going to do something he does it. Being in a forgin country DOES not help for this matter.
Brian lost money on this for sure, 2 sets of boards plus shipping and a refund, yeah i can see why he wants out now. |
I am not shutting down Chipamp. When packages are shipped, the info is e-mailed to the receiver of the package. Here is the info from the package that went out to Saudi Arabia:
http://trkcnfrm1.smi.usps.com/PTSIn...m=LJ600766796US
The website indicates when it is submitted, and is generally updated when it is received. This does not provide full tracking like EMS. I have decided to require EMS (which costs an extra $10) for countries such as Italy and Saudi Arabia. For Italy, we have lost several packages going there, with some being returned in 2 months, and others taking 4-6 weeks to arrive. Through EMS, it is guaranteed to most locations in 4-6 days.
| quote: | Originally posted by eaferrer
Hi,
As much as i have wanted to reply to your posts privately because i supposed that you really wanted it that way, Your username option doesnt seem to allow private messages. I am not going to make any harsh comment anymore since Brian already acted on what you are stating as my vandalising and harmfull posts. I can only say sorry and to tell you the truth, even up to now, we are still waiting for that package to come.
The main reason why other people (not only me, if you can read other complaints coz its in other forum topic) is pretty clear, im not going to say it anymore.
Dont worry , if the package does arrive, i will pay brian and i will also post the picture image of my order here so that you will know it. But it's better that you allow me to send you the privately ..peace...
TO the MODS,
Please delete all my post after mr. PATCH is finish reading my reply to his post. |
Yes, this has been settled and the order refunded. Lets leave it at that until it either arrives at the original destination, or is returned to my address here.
| quote: | Originally posted by patch
Brian, I completely forgot. I wanted to register my interest in a 3 or 4 sets of the Aleph boards, if you had in mind ordering up another batch. |
I will be ordering more Aleph boards soon, don't worry.
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| salesmonster |
Brian:
Just wanted you to know I'm interested in amp and power supply boards too.
Dave |
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| stereoandy78 |
| This is my first post. This is the kit I want to purchase, but the chipamp page says out of stock. Do I need to wait, are these black and gold boards already gone? The internet is so amazing!! Look forward to getting to know you all. I am a guitar builder, have built several tube amps but am really wanting to get into audio. All of my acquaintances in the amp world think I am crazy to be affraid of solid state technology, but the truth is I am a very visual learner (A.D.D.) and am scared of pcb's. |
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| salesmonster |
Andy:
If the voltages of tubes doesn't scare you, you should do fine with solid state!
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| stereoandy78 |
| Yeah the fear is one of four days spent wiring, drilling, mounting and four seconds of smoke bomb.:bigeyes: :hot: :bawling: |
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| jleaman |
| quote: | Originally posted by stereoandy78
Yeah the fear is one of four days spent wiring, drilling, mounting and four seconds of smoke bomb.:bigeyes: :hot: :bawling: |
Four Second's come on, thats lots of time to enjoy the smoke :)
It won't smoke have some faith, if your stuck or worried we can help ya :) |
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| dake13 |
I'm also interested in some Aleph boards, but I may just get a 3886 if it's going to be a while. Any idea, Brian?
thanks,
David |
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| postalrat |
| One more interested in a couple apeph boards and 4 or so power boards. |
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| shallbehealed |
| quote: | Originally posted by postalrat
One more interested in a couple apeph boards and 4 or so power boards. |
i challenge you to a minnesota aleph-off! |
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| BrianGT |
I ordered another 100 - Aleph amp boards a week or so ago, and they should arrive here within a week, and I will place them back up for sale on the website.
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| Daveze |
Spectacular.
Eagerly awaiting their arrival. |
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| John Caswell |
Hi Brian,
I would also like to request 2 sets of boards as and when available.
John Caswell |
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| BrianGT |
| quote: | Originally posted by John Caswell
Hi Brian,
I would also like to request 2 sets of boards as and when available.
John Caswell |
They should be in by the end of the week, and I will put them back on the website :)
I still have about 60 power supply boards left. |
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| mirfak |
Hi,
what is a power consumption of this mini-a? (trafo +/- 18VDC)?
W. |
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| mrRed |
| BrianGT, hope ya had a nice turkey day. Any update on the availability of the boards? |
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| jleaman |
| quote: | Originally posted by mirfak
Hi,
what is a power consumption of this mini-a? (trafo +/- 18VDC)?
W. |
The mini A's use a 20V rail. I use a 300Va to run 2 channel's. No problems yet and been running about a year or more. I run 4 amps, 2 stereo blocks. |
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| jleaman |
If you run yours like mine 20V rails you will get about 18Watts 15V is a little low.
It all depends on your Heatsinks too, if you have small ones you wil want to run lower Rails, if you have decent sized ones, then run the 20V rails.
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| BrianGT |
Aleph amplifier boards are back in stock, as I received the latest batch yesterday afternoon, and put them on the website this morning. I have a limited amount of PSU boards available, and will order more soon. I will take the PSU boards off the website for ordering when they are are out.
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| Daveze |
Purchase made...
Woohoo. |
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| jleaman |
| I am willing to help ALL :) |
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| BrianGT |
| quote: | Originally posted by Daveze
Purchase made...
Woohoo. |
Received it. After your order, I will only have a handful of PSU boards left. I will place an order for more in the next few days. |
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| rastafazz |
| quote: | Originally posted by Daveze
Purchase made...
Woohoo. |
Same here.
Thanks a lot Brian. |
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| dake13 |
| Ditto. Just for clarification, one set of stereo boards and one psu board is enough for one stereo Mini A? |
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| BrianGT |
| quote: | Originally posted by dake13
Ditto. Just for clarification, one set of stereo boards and one psu board is enough for one stereo Mini A? |
That is correct.
The MA-amp pcb set includes 2 - amplifier pcbs, and 4 - output boards (allow for 3 output devices each).
Just to clarify for the output boards, If you were to build a Mini-A, you would not use the output boards. For an Aleph30, you need 2 output boards per channel; Aleph60, you would need 4 output boards.
More details here:
http://www.diyamps.com/aleph/aleph.shtml
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| Daveze |
| quote: | Originally posted by BrianGT
Received it. After your order, I will only have a handful of PSU boards left. I will place an order for more in the next few days. |
My apologies to everybody else that wants PSU boards too. I've been waiting a while for these to come along again and I just couldn't hold myself back.. |
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| jleaman |
| quote: | Originally posted by Daveze
My apologies to everybody else that wants PSU boards too. I've been waiting a while for these to come along again and I just couldn't hold myself back.. |
I have one for sale, if some one badly needs it. I thought i was going to need it for my F4, but i don't.
Jase
15$ including shiping. Jase |
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| BrianGT |
| quote: | Originally posted by Daveze
My apologies to everybody else that wants PSU boards too. I've been waiting a while for these to come along again and I just couldn't hold myself back.. |
No worries :) I am placing an order for more of them, and should have another 100 in a couple of weeks.
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| BrianGT |
I am out of the amplifier psu boards, and will be taking them off the website order form. I am placing an order for more, and will put them back up when they arrive.
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| jacco vermeulen |
BusyB,
i still haven't figured out where you get the time for everything you do.
Comfort me, tell me you're on steroids and multi-Vs. |
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| john65b |
Hello all, I have an irritating question to ask...just got my Aleph boards from Brian and have most of the parts for the Aleph 5 - all transistors, resistors, caps, 1200VA 28-0-28 torrid, four monster 56,000uF caps, chassis with heat sinks capable of dissipating 150w per sink, etc.
Now for the dumb question - I know the components of the Aleph 30 differ from the Aleph 5, but can I build an Aleph 30 and put the +/-34VDC rails on her to get the equivalent of the Aleph 5 (provided the components are good to go for the 35V)?
I like the fact that the Aleph 30 has a higher input impedance than the Aleph 5 (my tube pre is a bit highish 3k), and I have the schematic for the true Aleph 5 too, just believe the Aleph 30 at the higher rails may be a better bet..
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| John Caswell |
Hi Brian et al,
Boards received today 4th Dec 10:30am.
Excellent service highly recommended!
Board quality is superb, almost military grade, will be a treat to build!
Now to order some FETs from another DIYAudio supplier
John Caswell |
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| rastafazz |
Boards received.
Thanks Brian.
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| BrianGT |
I received another batch of the PSU boards today, and still have some of the Aleph amp boards left.
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| nycavsr2000 |
Hi,
Anybody know where the service manuals are for the Aleph 30 and Aleph 5? They are not at the Pass labs websites including passlabsdiy and firstwatt.
Thanks,
Anand. |
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| Daveze |
They can be found here:
http://www.passlabs.com/downloads.htm
Problem is that they don't have the schematics in them any longer, however I believe that BrianGT's schematic on his site is good for a mini Aleph and the Aleph 30 when you include the little side boards. I'm under the impression that the differences between the Aleph 30 and 5 are subtle but I don't know what they are.
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| rastafazz |
I can send it to you.
Just email me.
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| PierreG |
| Brian I need mini A amp PCB and 2 PS PCB. Will you have some Mini A amp PCB soon? It seems out of stock on your website. I want to make one order for everything. |
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| norazmi |
| how much the output power for this amp can produce? It will require large heatsink? |
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| fcel |
| If per spec, it's 10W/CH. It requires minimal heatsink. |
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| norazmi |
| Minimal heatsink.. thats great. Thanks for the info bro. :) |
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| sandstorm33 |
| quote: | Originally posted by PierreG
Brian I need mini A amp PCB and 2 PS PCB. Will you have some Mini A amp PCB soon? It seems out of stock on your website. I want to make one order for everything. |
mikeW sent me the gerber files for the mini-a PCB's .I've had some difficulty in uploading them to a fabricator as I've never done this before. Unfortunately Mike didnt know the answers to my questions either. If anyone is familiar with the gerber file process I would be most appreciative for the help.
Anyway I thought their might be enough interest to have some made .
Anyone interested can respond.. |
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| fcel |
| norazmi ... I use two of the heatsinks shown attached for my mini-A. It's more than adequate. |
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| BrianGT |
| I ordered another batch of Aleph amplifier boards, and will put them back up on the site when they arrive. Hopefully that should be within 2 weeks. |
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| PierreG |
| quote: | Originally posted by BrianGT
I ordered another batch of Aleph amplifier boards, and will put them back up on the site when they arrive. Hopefully that should be within 2 weeks. |
Thank you Brian. I hope there will be some PS boards left also. I would like to have only one shipment for both. |
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| BrianGT |
| quote: | Originally posted by PierreG
Thank you Brian. I hope there will be some PS boards left also. I would like to have only one shipment for both. |
I still have 70 PSU boards left. They don't seem to go that quickly. |
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| sandstorm33 |
| quote: | Originally posted by BrianGT
I ordered another batch of Aleph amplifier boards, and will put them back up on the site when they arrive. Hopefully that should be within 2 weeks. |
Halleujah!!!:D |
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| mr.duck |
My amp boards arrived ages ago now I'm planning the build. I want to make mini aleph mono blocks heatsinked to aluminium cases I already have. I estimate cases to have 2*C/watt thermal resistance but that is just a guess. If I make mono blocks then that would be 4 of these heatsinks in total.
BTW my cases are the fairly well known "galaxy max" from italy:
Do you think that would be enough heatsink? (my case is not the exact one in the picture)
How much power does a mini aleph dissipate? |
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| Bassivus |
Hi,
I have purchased the aleph boards from chipamp.com in order to build A30 but can not find the files that were on diyamps.com. I have asked BrianGT for it but got no reply. Could someone help me with it?
Thanks ,
Ivica |
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| Bassivus |
| Thanks to everybody who helped... got it all! |
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| cloud |
| BrianGT> With there still being so much interest in amps constructed using your wonderful pcb's If possible could you post some construction details for various Aleph versions ect... Something like what you offer for the chip amps pdf posted at your site ! Im sure this would help a great number of people who are new to DIY my-self included. Again many thanks for those beutiful black pcb's ! |
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