What a relief
Well, finally got my 1rst channel board done and installed.
I have the PS set up for 240VAC in.
Initital trial with 120VAc for approx 50% rails voltage.
Did a quick power up, all LED's came on, no smoke or funny smells.
Had a test driver and my iPhone hooked up, brought the volume up and
music came out!
Couldn't resist listening for a couple of minutes, then rolled it back down.
I was as proud as only a newb amplifier assembler with limited electronics background could be.
Never would have tried it without the excellent build guide by 6L6 and surety of help from the forum.
Silent on power up, but there was a pop-pop on power down that was a little louder than I liked, though.
Next I'll rig for 240VAC and begin the initial adjustment procedure. Should have time tomorrow for that.
Well, finally got my 1rst channel board done and installed.
I have the PS set up for 240VAC in.
Initital trial with 120VAc for approx 50% rails voltage.
Did a quick power up, all LED's came on, no smoke or funny smells.
Had a test driver and my iPhone hooked up, brought the volume up and
music came out!
Couldn't resist listening for a couple of minutes, then rolled it back down.
I was as proud as only a newb amplifier assembler with limited electronics background could be.
Never would have tried it without the excellent build guide by 6L6 and surety of help from the forum.
Silent on power up, but there was a pop-pop on power down that was a little louder than I liked, though.
Next I'll rig for 240VAC and begin the initial adjustment procedure. Should have time tomorrow for that.
To your note, I left the amp playing most of the day yesterday and today while I went off to work. Tonight while listening, it appears the amp has mellowed quite a bit compared to a couple of days ago. Maybe I didn't give it enough time over the past month, as I was mainly listening to the M2. Or maybe it sounds better after its been on for a while. Anyway, the treble sounds more tame and natural and quite a bit easier on the ears. It doesn't have the etched and dry quality that's been bothering me, if that description of treble makes any sense.
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Aleph J chassis guide
This photo shows (behind all the various wires, sorry…) the mounting of the heatsink brackets to the heatsinks themselves, the back and the bottom.
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Was doing the ol' check-double check thing and the Input wiring caught my eye.
I'm using single ended inputs in my project.
I have the RCA jack center pin wired to +In, RCA jack tab wired to -In.
In the photo above, it appears that RCA jack center pin is wired to -In,
RCA jack tab wired to +In.
1. Am I cross eyed on this, or should I reverse my wiring?
2. -In to GND jumper is not just for aligning bias and DC offfset, but permanent, correct?
3. Input still need to be jumpered (+In to -In) temporarily for bias and DC offset alignment?
Uh-oh
Hit some trouble when I went to full voltage for the alignment procedure.
DVM across R18 read .850V. Adjusting R27 (set to 68K when installed) had no effect on this reading.
Rail voltages were +22.88 and -23.5 measured at the PCB.
Powered down, connected iPhone to input for music check as on initial 50% power up when I got music to the test driver but this time got only a loud pop-pop-pop from the driver then silence.
By this time I'm noticing heat building, checked temps just below mosfets on the heat sink with a non contact thermometer. Power had been on only a few minutes.
Q6 = 90.8F
Q5 = 98.2F
Q8 = 130.6F
Q7 = 136.4F
Powered down after I took those temp readings.
Input connections at the time were RCA center pin to +IN, RCA tab to -IN.
I pulled the PCB to reconnect input to the configuration of RCA center pin to +IN, RCA tab to GRND, jumper between GRND and -IN.
Awaiting advice from those that know more about such things than I before
proceeding.
Signed,
One of the NeedyBoyz
Hit some trouble when I went to full voltage for the alignment procedure.
DVM across R18 read .850V. Adjusting R27 (set to 68K when installed) had no effect on this reading.
Rail voltages were +22.88 and -23.5 measured at the PCB.
Powered down, connected iPhone to input for music check as on initial 50% power up when I got music to the test driver but this time got only a loud pop-pop-pop from the driver then silence.
By this time I'm noticing heat building, checked temps just below mosfets on the heat sink with a non contact thermometer. Power had been on only a few minutes.
Q6 = 90.8F
Q5 = 98.2F
Q8 = 130.6F
Q7 = 136.4F
Powered down after I took those temp readings.
Input connections at the time were RCA center pin to +IN, RCA tab to -IN.
I pulled the PCB to reconnect input to the configuration of RCA center pin to +IN, RCA tab to GRND, jumper between GRND and -IN.
Awaiting advice from those that know more about such things than I before
proceeding.
Signed,
One of the NeedyBoyz
2 12V LED's in series.
Twitchie,
Q2-ZTX550 and Q3,4-ZTX450. I looked up the datasheets to ensure correct polarity and think I've got them correct. Certainly possible I'm wrong, will check that yet again.
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Input shorted, powered up. Rails both @ 22.8V
Across R18 = .940V
Speaker Terminals = 15.9V initially, slowly to 16.4 then power down.
Now that's what I call some DC offset.
Checked test driver voice coil, it survived.
Rechecked Q2,3,4 again. I'm as sure as I can be that they are in the correct positions and polarity.
Across R18 = .940V
Speaker Terminals = 15.9V initially, slowly to 16.4 then power down.
Now that's what I call some DC offset.
Checked test driver voice coil, it survived.
Rechecked Q2,3,4 again. I'm as sure as I can be that they are in the correct positions and polarity.