Pumpkin Preamp - Perfect for F4

HeHe all that OT... Well i am one of the greedy guy's, so i naturally got some more quistion's today.... ---------------------->

I stripped my single-sided PCB-layout down to 7jumperwire's now. The first pcb i made, i had a failure on schematics, that i diden't see, till it was all etched :cannotbe:
Well nomatter, it's kindof fun to draw pcb's right ?

I am hoping to finish up Left channel pumpkin this weekend, and i would like some explanation about howto adjust this little bugger 😀

1. The WR1 is as i see it, a trimmer to adjust the balance between q1 and q2 right ???
I see, that the 'sliderleg' is connected to drain q10 etc... and that the two outherside's of the trimmer is connected to source's of q1/q2, how doe's this work ??? And how do i adjust it, i mean where to meassure, and how much ? ?

2 The WR2 is for adjustning the current source (again as i see it!), and again howto adjust, and where to meassure ? ?

3. Do i win something if i use a balanced attenuator, instead of a normal stereopot at the indput, when i got no balanced sources, and does it matter at all ???

Really be glad for prober answer 😀 Free beer two those who answer my quistion's at my place here in DK 😎

Jesper.

Schematic link here
 
lykkedk said:
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1. The WR1 is as i see it, a trimmer to adjust the balance between q1 and q2 right ???
I see, that the 'sliderleg' is connected to drain q10 etc... and that the two outherside's of the trimmer is connected to source's of q1/q2, how doe's this work ??? And how do i adjust it, i mean where to meassure, and how much ? ?

2 The WR2 is for adjustning the current source (again as i see it!), and again howto adjust, and where to meassure ? ?

3. Do i win something if i use a balanced attenuator, instead of a normal stereopot at the indput, when i got no balanced sources, and does it matter at all ???

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first No.2 :

preadjust R22 + WR2 to ~ 200E ; that will give you ~ 16mA through input LTP ,for start.....

anyway...................

with WR2 you can adjust currents through left and right output CCS-es (look at currents through R7 and R8) and - accordingly - offset between outputs AND GND

with WR1 you can decrease and null difference between + and - output (that's that- another one DC offset 😉 )

you can use one stereo pot per channel

or question was different?

in any case- tweaking both WRs is iterative process ; as Papa teaches/preaches in past - take it slowly 😉


edit :

you can pass all my beers to Lucky Luke

if I didn't answer on all Qs,ask again,please......
 
you can use one stereo pot per channel

or question was different?

No that's fine thanx a lot...

Thanx for nice answer's very cool.

And about the beer. Steen can come and listning + drinking beer with me, no problem. (He would like to take train back home i suppose then) 😀

Maybe.. (99%) 😉 I will be back later this week / next week... with new quistion's.
Have a nice evening.... ZenMod

Jesper.
 
BY ZENMOD : you can use one stereo pot per channel

or question was different?

ANSWER FROM ME : No that's fine thanx a lot...

I must had been mad... yesterday, replying that this was the answer i was searching for... sry. about that !... The thing i would like to know(s) is :

1 I assume i short GND and -in when using it unbalanced with no balanced sources ?

2 Can i then use +in from LEFT channel and +in from RIGHT channel, with a normal alps 4,7Kohm stereopot. ??? -- OR do i win somthing using a 4deck here ??? This is something i allway's find hard to figure out btw.

3 The BC546C ... I will match them for HFE, with a meter (multimeter) right ?

4 Also the j309 / irf610 / irf9610, need's matching, but not between parts right ? only pairs ?

That should be it i think !

Jesper.
 
lykkedk said:




I must had been mad... yesterday, replying that this was the answer i was searching for... sry. about that !... The thing i would like to know(s) is :

1 I assume i short GND and -in when using it unbalanced with no balanced sources ?

2 Can i then use +in from LEFT channel and +in from RIGHT channel, with a normal alps 4,7Kohm stereopot. ??? -- OR do i win somthing using a 4deck here ??? This is something i allway's find hard to figure out btw.

3 The BC546C ... I will match them for HFE, with a meter (multimeter) right ?

4 Also the j309 / irf610 / irf9610, need's matching, but not between parts right ? only pairs ?

That should be it i think !

Jesper.

1. yes ......

2. yes- normal stereo pot used for both channels........ as in any usual unbal preamp

3 . good enough ........

4. match between left and right........J309 .....IRF610 .....IRF9610
 
lykkedk said:
Cool ZenMod...

Then q1/q2 matched pair ? (j309)
Then q5/q7 matched pair ? (irf9610)
Then q6/q8 matched pair ? (irf610) .... Cool it should be doable.

Have a nice day.

Jesper


yup

q1/q2 .....J309 or J310 or 2SK170V matched pair

q3/q4 .... whatever NPN bjt thingie you have .....(pinout!!) matched pair

q5/q7 .....9610 or 9510 ......matched pair

q6/q8......610 or 510 ......matched pair


q1/q2 thermaly coupled (face to face)

q3/q4 too ,

q5,q6,q7,q8,q10 on same heatsink

edit:

why not switch to toobz........ ?
they have more legs ........... :devilr:
 
q1/q2 thermaly coupled (face to face)

q3/q4 too ,

q5,q6,q7,q8,q10 on same heatsink

😀 lookie lookie my friend 😉

Jesper 😎
 

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pretty clumsy .........

Yep, this is my first attemp to do layout with diptrace... Actually it's not very easy (pattern traces etc...) I think this layout is better than the first one i fcuk'et up, cause now i only got 7jumper's on the singlesided layout.

Well i tried to hold 'the power' at left side pcb, and place resistors near part's. But it's not near perfect, but i will try it out, and if no hum and other probl. i dont care, as long as it made prober.

One again thanx for your'e help Zenmod

Jesper.🙂
 
lykkedk said:
Isen't this pcblayout-forum.com ??? 😕

uppsss... sry. for OT guy's 😀

mpmarino : You use batteripower for your'e pumpkin ? - Tell me about it 🙂

Jesper.🙂

OT - he he. What does it mean? anyone? :clown:

My batt box is almost done but no Pumpy yet. I'll wait for Choky's boards - I have too much going on to scratch build and I would like to support greedy Papa Jr too. :devilr: