diyAB Amp The "Honey Badger" build thread

I used a 600va 2x40v one for mine. The amp is capable of 180w into an 8 ohm load so there is some headroom. or you could use a couple of 300va ones. Oh yes and I also installed a soft start.

Regards

niss_man

My Roksan Kandy had a 600va, rated 115@8 , 185@ 4 respectively. Never had a chance to try the second but it walked all over several big full sized floor standing 8 ohms with pure authority. It had hard hitting deep quick bass snap. Its respectable. It out shined a Bryston 3B ST. 2 bad I let that one slip (first ;(. I'd glady take another early K amp.

Good work. Similar to size, layout was different. I'm not sure if I'm ready to assemble an amp. Maybe I should start with a couple cheaper PS first lol.

P.S the title got my attention first. I just finished watching Honey Bee, a guy made a ginormous farming tractor homade in Saskatchewan Canada,, thats what he named it. Off topic, my bad...I was just exiting 🙂
 
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Hi guys, some days ago I asked someone of you if a CRC PSU design could have suited for this amp. It has been said me that it is preferable to avoid the R part, so I designed a new PSU board starting from Jeffyoung's PSU board. Can you tell me what do you think of it and if I should make some changes? The caps footprints are for 40mm 80V 22000uF caps from Cornell-Dubilier. The resistors are 4,7Kohm 5W. Thank you.


Gaetano.
 

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Hi guys, some days ago I asked someone of you if a CRC PSU design could have suited for this amp. It has been said me that it is preferable to avoid the R part, so I designed a new PSU board starting from Jeffyoung's PSU board. Can you tell me what do you think of it and if I should make some changes? The caps footprints are for 40mm 80V 22000uF caps from Cornell-Dubilier. The resistors are 4,7Kohm 5W. Thank you.


Gaetano.

thanks, looks good....as a concession, Robert Cordell says using heavy gauged wires is not needed..#20 is what i mostly use...
 
Generally, it's okay to go up on power, just not down. Also, make sure you stick with the type of resistor that the designer calls for, unless you know enough to change the recommended type for a specific purpose.


In this case AS is right, the holes in the board are tight the ID runs small.

JT