Pumpkin preamp - ordered by Steen , official making thread

spavleski said:



Workie, workie :smash:


steenoe said:


Me too😀 The pumpkin is getting a new home and bigger heatsinks , the case is with "see through lid"! Who could resist with all them green led's in there? Not me....

🙂



those two boxes looks too sissssssy 😉

I hope that you boyz will put 'nuff holes in both lower and upper plate(s)

Pumpie is burnin' some 30++ Watts ...... overall .
 
Pumpkin volume control

steenoe said:


Me too😀 The pumpkin is getting a new home and bigger heatsinks , the case is with "see through lid"! Who could resist with all them green led's in there? Not me....

🙂

So Mr. Steen, do I see potentiometers in place of the Twisted Pear stepped volume control and input-output boards?

Would you care to elaborate on the changes and effects on sound, if any? I would like to benefit from your experience and reasons for the changes. . .

Thanks!

Steve Z
 
Re: Pumpkin volume control

zettelsm said:


So Mr. Steen, do I see potentiometers in place of the Twisted Pear stepped volume control and input-output boards?

Would you care to elaborate on the changes and effects on sound, if any? I would like to benefit from your experience and reasons for the changes. . .

Thanks!

Steve Z


naah

don't count too much on his xperience ........ on next pic you'll see flies instead of pot :clown:

(talking about ........ once I mounted watering can instead of TV antenna on the roof , naturally with antenna cable connected to it ........ just to tease my neighbors .......... they have strange look few days ............ :rofl: )
 
Steenoe's Pumpkin revised

Looking closer I see he had done away with input and output connectors too. Very nice trick -- two less connectors in the signal path. In fact, there are no connectors or controls anywhere on the new box! 😀

Steve Z
 
Hi Guys,

Now that my plitron "Over Kill trafo" has pretty much turned into "kill trafo", I need to find other sources for a transformer.

Has anybody successfully used the Apex Jr Mercury Magnetics TA110-W? Which other trafos have you guys been using?

Thanks,
Dinesh
 
dviswa said:
Hi Guys,

Now that my plitron "Over Kill trafo" has pretty much turned into "kill trafo", I need to find other sources for a transformer.

Has anybody successfully used the Apex Jr Mercury Magnetics TA110-W? Which other trafos have you guys been using?

Thanks,
Dinesh


why not - if you use two of them , to have twice 40Vac

you can always ask AR2 which one from Apex he use
 
Apex Jr TA110-W transformer

dviswa said:
Hi Guys,

Now that my plitron "Over Kill trafo" has pretty much turned into "kill trafo", I need to find other sources for a transformer.

Has anybody successfully used the Apex Jr Mercury Magnetics TA110-W? Which other trafos have you guys been using?

Thanks,
Dinesh

I am going to use the MM TA110-Ws for my Pumpkin-Shunty AC power supply. Doing a quick hookup to check voltage, two MM TA110-Ws can be hooked up to supply a nominal 40V - 0 - 40V or 48V - 0 - 48V, the latter too much probably for all but the lowest of line voltages -- Japan perhaps @ 100VAC line.

The transformers appear to be good quality E-I core and should have no problem supplying the required current to a stereo pair of preamp-regulators. In typical DIY overkill fashion, I picked up 4 of the TA110-Ws so I can go dual-mono. 😎

The price is certainly very right!

Steve Z