All--
I pulled the ALPs pot from my TU 8600 to make it a stand alone amplifier.
Now that I have a hole in the front of my chassis it's time to fix that! I have a nice VU meter that will fit almost perfectly in the spot where the ALPs called home.
I have a nice little PC board with a voltage regulator that converts AC 120 to 6, 9, or 12V to power things like my VU backlight.
Which would you do?
Option 1: Run a separate AC mains power cable from the outlet to the VU meter and the PC board (this works in my tests).
Option 2: Tap the AC line in on the Elekit to feed the VU pc board to pull off 12 volts to run the light.
Option 2 would be cleaner in that I don't have to have a second power plug going into the Elekit, but I'm not sure about whether it would be taking juice from what the amp itself needs. The load is small, but I defer to the experts.
THANK YOU!!!
I pulled the ALPs pot from my TU 8600 to make it a stand alone amplifier.
Now that I have a hole in the front of my chassis it's time to fix that! I have a nice VU meter that will fit almost perfectly in the spot where the ALPs called home.
I have a nice little PC board with a voltage regulator that converts AC 120 to 6, 9, or 12V to power things like my VU backlight.
Which would you do?
Option 1: Run a separate AC mains power cable from the outlet to the VU meter and the PC board (this works in my tests).
Option 2: Tap the AC line in on the Elekit to feed the VU pc board to pull off 12 volts to run the light.
Option 2 would be cleaner in that I don't have to have a second power plug going into the Elekit, but I'm not sure about whether it would be taking juice from what the amp itself needs. The load is small, but I defer to the experts.
THANK YOU!!!
Did you put any resistors where Alps pot used to be or just bypass the pot completely?
Yes, does each amp input have a grid resistor to ground (not in series with the grid) near the input tube socket?
You do need that in place.
You do need that in place.
I bypassed the pot completely. I removed it and soldered right out to right in, and left out to left in. Do I need to do more?