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Morning rdf:

No..never thought of using chassie as part of the circuit. I always just run ground wires from everything to the input ground....as you can see in the pic. Although now that you mention it the chassie would probably save a lot of wire. I see from the pictures here a lot of ways to improve on my mess in my next project.
 
MelB said:
Morning rdf:

No..never thought of using chassie as part of the circuit. I always just run ground wires from everything to the input ground....as you can see in the pic. Although now that you mention it the chassie would probably save a lot of wire. I see from the pictures here a lot of ways to improve on my mess in my next project.

Actaully it would still be best to maintain a star ground implementation rather that use the chassis.

Regards

Anthony
 
Don't want to imply massive experience so YMMV but I used ground plane on an amplifier project originally designed for direct connection to crystal pickups. The input sensitivity is 0.1 volt. It's very, very quiet. In this case a PBC was used for the ground plane, I never did figure out how to attach wires to heavy copper. Too much heat required, the best idea I could come up with was machine screws through the copper sheet and nuts for a compression crimp. Then I woke up. ;)

The next project looks like it's going to be an Aikido and no question the same technique will be used.
 
Hey Upupa:

How do you like my amp? :D
 

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