MF A1, Kudos to Tim de Paravicini, Ode to my Youth, Babelfishing

Pretty near. 🙂
The amplifiers are drilled, tapped, pre-assembled and almost ready (the metalwork). And I need to take them apart and apply heatsink compound at all of the joints.

The local cap banks for each of the amps are built and almost ready, solderwork remains. They are made to be fairly easily and solidly configured as dual rail or a single rail setup.
 
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Cap pack build. No solder yet.

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Heatsink heat transfer incomplete. No heatsink compound yet.

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I would guess that the initial start ups and test runs are just a couple a weeks away. 🎺🙂🎸

Got to find build time between the snowmobile runs, that is in prime season this time of the year here up in the north.

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No, it's not DanDagostino factory tour...A1 CNC-ed heatsinks...milled from one block of Alu, 400x200x30 mm.
Hope PS will be finished next week. CLC, 4x22mF (Mundorf M-Lytic AG), 300VA transformer per channel
Was listening to proto version on T-bed, still have Zen's original A1 from his early beginnings (mentioned here)
The rest of the chassis will not be finished very fast but...I want to make it unique in appearance...IMHO a very special amp
 

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Since i am a such a darn chicken, i have mounted the 1,3 meg bias resistors of all the bias resistors that came with the amp kit.

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As specified in the schematics:

1,3M Ohm - 0,7A bias
820k - 1,05A
680k - 1,2A
330k - 1,7A
243k - 1,85A

What is the startup recommendation?
  • Variac and ampere/power meter
  • Dim bulb setup and power meter
  • Dim bulb setup, variac and power meter
  • All in Cold Turkey: Just Flip it ON!

All possibly Ready for preliminary test this weekend!

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