Aksa Lender P-MOS Hybrid Aleph (ALPHA) Amplifier

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Fantastic news X!!
Looking forward to getting those boards in hand:)
Doesn’t time seem to speed up when your on vacation? Enjoy the rest of your week.

Pcgab,
Sweet setup around the fireplace!
My fans arrived and seem to fit the Dell coolers perfectly. They are the 80mm size. Currently, I set them up under my MoFo and they are VERY quiet. LEGO’s always come in handy:)
 

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Pcgab,
Sweet setup around the fireplace!
My fans arrived and seem to fit the Dell coolers perfectly. They are the 80mm size. Currently, I set them up under my MoFo and they are VERY quiet. LEGO’s always come in handy:)

Thanks!

I love the lego fan stand, that's awesome!

I wonder if making a mounting bracket for the fans to mount on iso mounts (silicone spongy grommets or something) to the chassis baseplate might be better? You could mount them securely enough and with proper damping to help any vibration related issues, and not have to try and mount to the rather thin and delicate fins of the heatsinks.
 
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I may have missed this in the bom:

C115 1uf 63v MKS4

Looks like the same cap as C121

Yes, both of those are 1uF MKS bypass caps for the big electrolytics.

The PCBs that JPS64 designed look great. Perhaps one of the prettiest PCBs I have seen. The double thick copper with ENIG finish and blue solder mask work real well together on 2mm thick board. But the star of the show is the crazy intense number of vias that connect parallel thick traces on both sides of the board for the high current flows and the ground plane.

Here are some photos of the boards and a closeup of the backside. I am afraid to ask how many vias that is and how many drill bits may have been used to make all of them?

Top and bottom side:
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Closeup of back side:
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JPS64 put some reallly nice touches on it: one of my favorites is the choice of spade connectors or flying leads (for the Pass forum diehards) for the power supply and speaker output connections. UMS compliant MOSFET and standoff positions is also another great feature. Options for NP0 SMT caps or silver mica on C105 and C113 are also great choices to have. Nice job JPS64! :cheers:"
 

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