Babelfish ᄅſ....or FW J2 on Steroids .... or Not your Father's J2!

ZM,

In your three iterations is H2 negative or positive, going with Papa's way of defining it?
How likely is that I will I get a similar spectra to your posted ones. Should I be concerned that my two channels might not have matching spectra? I am planning on using SS at the bottom from the twin pairs I have bought from Patrick/EUVL. If THD spectra a bit different how can each channel be adjusted?
What VCC+/- is recommended?
Are the parts in your complete kit labeled eg resistor to resistor position or are they all together and have to be sorted by the user?

I like the way you have structured and explained this project so that the user can try different iterations and learn from them and make their own personal choice. Thank you.

nash

going with Papaway ...... this Babelfish , I mean all iterations, is having same polarity of 2nd harmonic as original

one will get the same with random output parts (meaning - not especially or at all matched) , considering that NFB is present , diminishing possible differences of xconductance of parts..... so besides setting Iq and offset , no need to headbang about anything else

rails - usual FW format - Donut(s) with separate 18Vac secondaries ; one can go little more (up) with that , but having dissipation of outputs on mind

I'm packing resistors labeled with sharpie on side paper tape , primarily to ease later re-check before final closing of package ; though - trust to no one! :rofl: ....... I had some 1K intruders in group labeled as 100R , sent with Sissy kits ; mixup not made by me , I got them packed all in one 100R bag , but they slipped through my fingers ......
 
another one ...... either Small Glory or Major Flop!

OK, it can be semi flop , considering that M2 variant is not critical in any way , but we'll see how much SEF In Vivo is close to LTSpice one

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going with Papaway ...... this Babelfish , I mean all iterations, is having same polarity of 2nd harmonic as original

I'm packing resistors labeled with sharpie on side paper tape , primarily to ease later re-check before final closing of package ; though - trust to no one! :rofl: ....... I had some 1K intruders in group labeled as 100R , sent with Sissy kits ; mixup not made by me , I got them packed all in one 100R bag , but they slipped through my fingers ......


Looking at FW J2 distortion waveform my brain says negative H2.

Labeling the way you say will be great help for us. Nice!

Regards,nash
 
like this ; second (half of) pcb is going in same way on second heatsink

it would be freat thar we have 2 more tapped holes in place where I put green rectangles , so heat sources would be on lower third ........ but it's nice even this way

of course, ZM is ordering directly from Modushop , non-tapped htsnks 🙂
 

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post #3 here : Babelfish M25, SissySIT - general building tips and tricks

practically - each pcbs is having 4 holes for heatsink montage ; 2 are occupied with mosfets , other two you're using plastic or metal spacer bushing/distancer , of same height as {mosfet+mica} thicknes

again , written few posts above : arrangement : heatsink , mica , mosfet, pcb , big washer, split washer , bolt



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Zen Mod, I'd like your comment on that way of mounting the output FETs.
I believe the shown way is for UMS easyness.

But why would we heat the PCB? The environment inside the amp is hot for sure, but isn't it an additional stress for it (and the other components) to bear this thermal coupling?