Babelfish XA252 / Babelfish XA252 SIT / Babelfish XA252 SET

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How are the transformers mounted to the L channels? Make sure you do not have a shorted turn,

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My build is starting to take shape. So far measuring 45 volts just after the rectifiers, hopefully this drops once I hook up the cap banks and amp boards. Using 30 volt secondary's.
 

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Ok, I am having trouble trying to wire these cap boards up. I thought I could just join the V+ and V- together on both boards and go on my merry way but I am not understanding the schematic properly. I think the easiest solution would be just to parallel the caps. Can someone verify my thinking here. Crude drawing posted below to help explain what I am thinking of doing.
 

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Born 3rd day of January, 2024, twins, christened Left and Right, to foster father Yet To Be Decided, father ZM, godfather Papa. Weighing in at an undeclared but hefty avoirdupois the gestation was not without it’s complications - chiefly due to non-clinical interpretation of Notes - but delivery was safely accomplished after many hours of labour.

Employing 2SK180 SITS - believed to be the first incarnation of this family to use these particular crib warmers - the twins are doing well, sitting up at 1.7A and displaying no more than 5mV difference across their two ends. After several hours without sleep and a steady diet of rock n’ roll they have reasonably elevated skin temperatures of 52 degrees C on the SIT side and 57 degrees C on the 40P50P side. Babysitters are employed, helping waft away the twin’s heated emanations - pampers without the downsides.

Reports on the quality of caterwauling may be forthcoming as the twins mature but initial reaction of incessantly tapping toes suggests many sleepless nights in the near future. A normal situation with new borns.
 

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Here you go. XA252 connected to LRS+ at the moment. Speakers in background are Paradigm Sub 1 and S8v3. The floorstanders on cobbled-together trolleys to allow shifting them. Room was result of a wonderfully kind professor of acoustics at MIT who responded to a request from me on an amateur radio dial-up bulletin-board forum (remember those - back in the days before the internet when you had to pay for overseas calls) for a listening room design.
 

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