DIY Sony VFET lottery discussion

6 members have been unable to be contacted by email or PM. All 6 had not been active in the forum for the last few months. This is interesting, and next time around we will ask for phone numbers and a back-up email address and perform email-confirmation during the entry process to ensure people don't have any email deliverability issues.

booja30, lykkedk and DaveM along with 6 other members have generously returned their tickets back to the pool so others can have a chance. You are true gentleman and thank you for looking after your fellow diyAudio members.

That made a total of 15 tickets to redraw.

In consideration of the inactive members who were unable to be contacted, and that all tickets for round 2 have been drawn according to the rules, I'm making a slight change for the redrawing. Any members who have not logged in since the round 2 winners were announced, have been excluded from the re-draw.

Here are the "round 2 extended" winners:
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MEMBER                        LAST LOGIN
peppe                         2021-08-03                    
biju55                        2021-08-03                    
triode4                       2021-08-04                    
secanbj                       2021-08-03                    
windwardmt                    2021-08-03                    
wkcox                         2021-08-04                    
analogico                     2021-08-03                    
rgolan                        2021-08-04                    
jcon2                         2021-08-03                    
wilbur-x                      2021-08-03                    
mrupp                         2021-08-03                    
diytiger                      2021-08-03                    
doolav                        2021-08-03                    
lohk                          2021-08-03                    
ipolyakov                     2021-08-04

If you're one of these lucky 15 please email contact@diyaudiostore.com ASAP to speed up the communication process. We will reach out by email and PM.

Note about chassis shipping: Hifi2000 goes on summer holidays this Friday, and needs time to ship and deal with any shipping problems, so anyone in this list has 24 hours to complete their purchase if they want to get their chassis before September. If you don't make it in time that's no problem from our side, but just means you'll have to wait a month for your chassis to ship.
 
Jason, can I ask a question with regards the US shipping, I have received an email from the store with a USPS tracking link ( which still shows no tracking information) - but the confirmation email said the US delivery would be via DHL Express - can you advise please.

Cheers.

Gary..
 
At this moment only plans, but next up are for 2SK60 and 2SJ18, similar but with
mu followers instead of constant current sources. The 2SK82 and 2SJ28 are very
happy with 8 ohm loads, so they get CCS. The 2SK60 and 2SJ18 are half the
size, prefer 16 ohm loads, and so will get mu followers that make 8 ohm load look
like 16.

:snail:

Papa, if I got an half alive Yamaha B2 (1 channel), it is 2sk76/2sj26 which upcoming version of BYO kit I could use?? ( i know i need win the lottery first )


Stan
 
Wow! I can't believe I am on top of round 2 extended winners list!

I do not have words to express my happiness to be able to become a proud member of the "lucky 200s".

Many thanks to Jason and the gentlemans that returned their tickets back :worship:
 
@Jason, does extended re-draw pool include those that remain logged in, i.e. for several days?

Yes. I used the "last_activity" field, which captures any activity at all, such as logging in or browsing a forum or viewing a thread. This updates even if people are continuously logged in. Any action (even browsing) updates that timestamp. So anyone who was in any way active after the 2nd round was drawn (ie: anyone who was interested enough to look at the results of the 2nd drawing).

For example, your last post was Aug 5th 2021 at 22:22 which I see is the time of the post above this I'm replying to, but your last activity was Aug 5 2021 at 22:50 (I believe I'm seeing that translated into my own timezone).
 
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After spending some time on these forums it is clear this is a great place to grow budding analog engineers. I knew an older electrical engineer who owned a new/used electronics store that said the industry was really lacking good analog engineers. Thanks to all of you like Mr. Pass, ZenMod, Jason, etc. who are making this a fun place to learn! And hopefully for the up an coming generation of analog EEs.

This is a hobby for me, but I know where to direct people that are interested in this as a career and/or hobby. 🙂

Even though I didn't win, it has been a lot of fun seeing the builds, the excitement and the extreme kindness people have towards each other.
 
Incredibly Fast processing and shipping!
Thank you to all involved 🙂
These output modules look lovely!
Arrived yesterday as well in Belgium- N version filter board:
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