Re: Another guess ...
Come on, let's get real, the guy with the independence day hat was raised on pasta with meat-a-ball-sauce and could have been a "Nice Guy" from Sicilia or Napoli in another life.
Come on, let's get real, the guy with the independence day hat was raised on pasta with meat-a-ball-sauce and could have been a "Nice Guy" from Sicilia or Napoli in another life.

Zen Mod said:
guess again 😉
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No ... bingo
mp = Mr. Marinade dei piedi ... hmm, tasty ... I was right...
🙂
What did you say is the prize ?
Manu
Manu said:
No ... bingo
mp = Mr. Marinade dei piedi ... hmm, tasty ... I was right...
🙂
What did you say is the prize ?
Manu
late night feet therapy?

Off the topic but I completed Shunty and Pumpkin and powered Shunty up with recommended load resisters and adjusted by the book. However I powered Pumpkin (with no input or output tied to anything) and I had full rail voltage across the outputs (before caps). I removed the ground jumper and then it seemed to perform as normal (was able to adjust offset). I realize It was recommended to test with volume pot set to 0(waiting for new Twisted Pear Audio controller), would this be the expected behavior with out volume pot?
Bill
Bill
wirewiggler said:Off the topic but I completed Shunty and Pumpkin and powered Shunty up with recommended load resisters and adjusted by the book. However I powered Pumpkin (with no input or output tied to anything) and I had full rail voltage across the outputs (before caps). I removed the ground jumper and then it seemed to perform as normal (was able to adjust offset). I realize It was recommended to test with volume pot set to 0(waiting for new Twisted Pear Audio controller), would this be the expected behavior with out volume pot?
Bill
ground both inputs before setting offset ;
that's same as turning pot (if connected ) to 0
wirewiggler said:Thanks ZM will give that a try .....
Although my shunty is partially vapor (repair parts on order) - I attempted zeroing out pumpkin using a +-31v psu I cobbled together. Once I noticed that I put 5k multiturns in there for some reason(replaced with some 200r 20 turns I had in drawer), she dialed in with no problem. The 5k would have worked but way too touchy. It is VERY sensitive to air currents and needs 'tweedling', but it is obvious it's gonna work out fine. I have the gnd jumper installed and inputs grounded.
RE: the picture, Choky's gonna hang

wirewiggler said:Thanks ZM will give that a try as soon as I wire up preamp in case. I was just trying to get the offset in the ball park until I cased it up. Here is Shunty without wood sides and milled front panel.
are you sure that you'll have enough ventilation in that case ?
mpmarino said:
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RE: the picture, Choky's gonna hang
🙂
be my guest , any time .........

Zen Mod said:
are you sure that you'll have enough ventilation in that case ?
Exactly my first thought when I saw it. Steen had problems, and this looks like even less ventilation

Magura 🙂
Manu said:Doesn't Steen have both Shunt and Pumpk in one case?
Manu
True, my under cover frog eating friend, but as far as I remember, it's the shunt that creates most of the heat.
Magura 🙂
Not only - For example yesterday : cevapi gurmansky ... in Serbian restaurant.Magura said:
... my under cover frog eating friend ...
Manu
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you can count on slightly less than 40W of heat in box , if you have cool xformer 😉
Pumpie itself will burn ~6 to 7W/ch ; rest is for Shunty(s)
Pumpie itself will burn ~6 to 7W/ch ; rest is for Shunty(s)
Manu said:Serious eating began
Merde de Putana, i'll be having succulent images in my sleep again.
Can't have that juicy stuff for a while, me fat, this week is truffes week, all NJ Jack's fault wih his talk about Bocuse and soupe de truffes.
So ce soiree was truffle soup, forgot to put the shrimp in before i made the pic, already have quite a bit of truffle oil after two days.
Tomorrow is pasta con tartufo, also have a truffle desert planned.
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jacco vermeulen said:
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behave .......... you're tempting me to publish some dirty pics ....

( ya know that I'm spineless , easy on moral.........)
The transformers do run cool with the load resisters, but at 45V they heat the Shuntys up. It will have a vented cover and the Pumpkin will sit on top one those rubber feet. I could open some more holes in it, but it will weaken the chassis it is a flimsy Hammond aluminum. Maybe I will cut some large square openings under the Shunty boards and pop rivet the same screen I am using on the top in them.
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