Here's some pics to help others. I went with Eric's silver wire with PTFE insulation for input/output. I will say that I would not recommend that due to the significant effort required, but it's how I chose to wire the input/outputs. If I could do it over, I'd just use good/standard insulated 28ga or 30ga wire. Other than that choice, the Pumpkin was very straight forward.....but pics are always helpful and how I was able to finish the Iron Pumpkin. The schematic, layout, and eagle BOM ensure one installs all the right components. I succeeded in all the wiring because of others photos and questions on this thread (and the tips and tricks thread)
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^ how I imagine Dan dancing last night…
Was it toe tapping or foot stomping?
@ birdbox
Fantastic build !!!
As I have said a few times 😊 the Turtle is audio nirvana
Fantastic build !!!
As I have said a few times 😊 the Turtle is audio nirvana
Slightly more arm movement, and a much much larger smile, but otherwise astonishingly accurate.
Well, if anyone was still questioning the mightiness of the Iron Pumpkin, that can be put to rest. Last night I turned the volume up to "Maximum Zen" just to see what it could do and it blew this massive tree right over. This is one impressive preamp! With great power, comes great responsibility.
Here we are surveying the damage. If you ask me the Iron Pumpkin almost looks proud of what it's done.
Back into the house for us. From now on I'll keep it just a 'wee' bit below Maximum Zen. Old 100ft tall trees are hard to come by.
Life is good with my new buddy Mr. Pumpkin. Thanks Zen Mod!
Here we are surveying the damage. If you ask me the Iron Pumpkin almost looks proud of what it's done.
Back into the house for us. From now on I'll keep it just a 'wee' bit below Maximum Zen. Old 100ft tall trees are hard to come by.
Life is good with my new buddy Mr. Pumpkin. Thanks Zen Mod!
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Very Cool! I likey.
Looks like you got more of the bomb Cyclone than we did here in Seattle!
Excellent build!
Looks like you got more of the bomb Cyclone than we did here in Seattle!
Excellent build!
OK, you tried to lighten up some unfortunate** Nature event .......
Don't despair ....... be sure - if you plant new Tree and take care of Tree hears Iron Pumpkin singing every day, you'll have 50-year strong Tree in 10 years, or so
Remember old Greek proverb: A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit
**or not; Nature is a Nature
Don't despair ....... be sure - if you plant new Tree and take care of Tree hears Iron Pumpkin singing every day, you'll have 50-year strong Tree in 10 years, or so
Remember old Greek proverb: A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit
**or not; Nature is a Nature
I ran into an issue with the Iron Pumpkin today. I finally got some CR2032 batteries from Bezo's bookstore and the remote does not work. I get 3.1V across the two wires of the remote with the battery installed, but none of the buttons don't do anything even when pointing directly into the receiver port (with the Iron Pumpkin on). Where should I start with troubleshooting?
Check the pinout for your ir receiver to see if its mounted correctly. If all good send some commands with the remote meanwhile you monitor the gnd and out pin of the ir sensor and see what happens.
You can check if the remote is sending something simply by looking at its led through the camera of your phone.
You can check if the remote is sending something simply by looking at its led through the camera of your phone.
I definitely see the remote sending signals via my phone camera. Next step is open the Pumpkin and try resetting the headers.
Found the missing part. I'm sure this will fix my problem 🙃
Yep, confirmed...when you install the IR sensor, the IR remote works.
Yep, confirmed...when you install the IR sensor, the IR remote works.
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now take 5cm of cloth Tessa tape, and lay it inside, to cover IR and IR window
it'll look much better from outside, not being looking-window inside
you have that detail in bunch-o-pics
observe, now - with IR installed, it sounds even better
So I know that a 3U enclosure is recommended, but has anyone built it in a 2U enclosure? ZM said it was possible…
lemme see ........
Bal iteration having 2 pcbs for Turtle, so calc for that:
5mm (as minimum) risers/extenders
1.6mm thick motherboard
5mm risers/extenders
1.6mm lower Turtle deck pcb
40mm risers/extenders
1.6mm upper Turtle deck pcb
40mm risers/extenders
1.6mm Turtle Logo clamp
4mm washer and screw head
sum is 100.4mm
as Slim Line 02/280 2U 10mm is having internal height of 80mm, no way Jose
I probably wasn't high or wasted in any way ( too old for that Drek), maybe I wrote it's possible for previous iteration , where I had 2 separate pcbs ( one per channel) and Turtle positioned on bottom of the case ( usually base plate) as separate entity ............ but even that way it's possible only if placing some spacers in between bottom plate and sides and upper plate, not using base plate at all
say that twice 7mm spacers are giving 94mm clearance
Turtle itself is:
5mm risers/extenders
1.6mm lower Turtle deck pcb
40mm risers/extenders
1.6mm upper Turtle deck pcb
40mm risers/extenders
1.6mm Turtle Logo clamp
4mm washer and screw head
so, 93.8mm
maybe I was wasted, after all .........
(I'm high all the time, Obelix recipe)
Bal iteration having 2 pcbs for Turtle, so calc for that:
5mm (as minimum) risers/extenders
1.6mm thick motherboard
5mm risers/extenders
1.6mm lower Turtle deck pcb
40mm risers/extenders
1.6mm upper Turtle deck pcb
40mm risers/extenders
1.6mm Turtle Logo clamp
4mm washer and screw head
sum is 100.4mm
as Slim Line 02/280 2U 10mm is having internal height of 80mm, no way Jose
I probably wasn't high or wasted in any way ( too old for that Drek), maybe I wrote it's possible for previous iteration , where I had 2 separate pcbs ( one per channel) and Turtle positioned on bottom of the case ( usually base plate) as separate entity ............ but even that way it's possible only if placing some spacers in between bottom plate and sides and upper plate, not using base plate at all
say that twice 7mm spacers are giving 94mm clearance
Turtle itself is:
5mm risers/extenders
1.6mm lower Turtle deck pcb
40mm risers/extenders
1.6mm upper Turtle deck pcb
40mm risers/extenders
1.6mm Turtle Logo clamp
4mm washer and screw head
so, 93.8mm
maybe I was wasted, after all .........
(I'm high all the time, Obelix recipe)