Re: trash!! give me trash!!
Quite, quite. I asked a local second-hand place whether they had any old chassis they were willing to sell me, and lo & behold they happened to have an old power amp about to be carted off to the dump. It later turned out to have good transformers, switches, caps, rectifiers, essentially everything save the output devices, which didn't interest me anyway since reading the circuit board indicated the original circuit was a nasty-looking class-G design. The heatsink (one!) isn't overly large at a dozen fins on 4x9 inches, but I reckon it'll do for some UcD modules.
Just goes to show sometimes you can turn a hangar queen sow's ear into a nice DIY silk purse.
And one of the local surplus shops has an output-less Peavey CS-800 looking for some love...
Francois.
psychosteve said:
Quite, quite. I asked a local second-hand place whether they had any old chassis they were willing to sell me, and lo & behold they happened to have an old power amp about to be carted off to the dump. It later turned out to have good transformers, switches, caps, rectifiers, essentially everything save the output devices, which didn't interest me anyway since reading the circuit board indicated the original circuit was a nasty-looking class-G design. The heatsink (one!) isn't overly large at a dozen fins on 4x9 inches, but I reckon it'll do for some UcD modules.
Just goes to show sometimes you can turn a hangar queen sow's ear into a nice DIY silk purse.
And one of the local surplus shops has an output-less Peavey CS-800 looking for some love...
Francois.
One mans junk is another mans treasure 😉 .
At the local dump they normally have a electronics section where they store all of the electronics such as computers and amps for recycling, you can find some great stuff in there for either free or next to nothing.
Trev🙂
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