Smaller Leach Amp V1

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BrianDonegan said:
By all reports, the shipping prices are amazingly reasonable. Try getting a quote from them. I haven't ordered from them myself, but have heard many peopel rave about them, including the inexpensive shipping.

Yes, I have a quote. and considering that they're great chunks of aluminum and Australia is as far away from here as it's possible to get it isn't too expensive, but still it'd be a lot cheaper to buy ten heatsinks than it would two.

Sea freight is an option of course, it's ridiculously cheap but it takes 10-12 weeks. I guess if I ordered them now I'd just about be ready to use them in 3 months...nah, maybe not, the biking season starts about then, should have ordered them four months ago!

cheers

Chris
 
Re: Heatsinks from Conrad

bremen nacht said:
I wonder if anyone in the UK/EU fancies a group buy, even if we don't meet the price-break (15% off 10 pieces of the same part) we could save on shipping.

I might be up for a couple of the big double flanged versions, I have lots of T03 devices that I really need to find something to do with.
 
Transistors are in place for the 10 transistor version.....

More to follow soon

\Jens
 

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:bawling: :bawling: :bawling:

I had one channel up and running and was doing some DC measurements to verify that everything was ok when I shorted the positive rail to the output :bawling: :bawling:

I had done some measurements with my scope and everything looked great until my little short.... Ohhh well tomorrow I will go through all transistors and verify that they still work.

Terry - this seems to happen to the all of us 🙂

\Jens
 
Running again....

Some numbers for the 10 transistor version:

DC on output: < 50mV (unmatched transistors)
AC out: 42V RMS loaded by 8 ohms = 220W into 8 ohms. 4ohms untestet yet.

The small overshoot seen on my prototypes is now smaller (maybe due to better Cdom parts... still looking into this)

Will start testing the second channel later today (I hope)

\Jens
 
Looking for artwork for "Smaller Leach Amp"

Jens

I was looking all over the Delta Audio website, but could not find PCB patterns for the 6 transistor Leach board that you completed in May 2005.

Since I've joined the forum after the group buy, I would like the opportunity to make my own board.

Is there any way you could make the PCB artwork available?

Thanks in advance

Andy
 
I also updated the website with a zipfile containing all the needed files for board production.
Goto: http://www.delta-audio.com/Leach-Clone-6.htm

I'm sorry...
I must be dumber than you assume.

I cannot use Gerber and drill files and such. I'm making boards by hand, not giving them to a factory. I can only use common graphics images. ( or something that can be printed from Eagle )


Links like the above do not work.
(I know someone will say "It does work for me!" -- not very helpful)

I've spent five hours yesterday going through every post in the thread, my eyes are tearing, and I'm exhausted.
There were no plain graphics images of the foil patterns that I could find.
I don't know what else to do.
I'm left with the only option to re-draw a graphic line-by-line, from the photographs of the boards.
(which seems rather odd, since this material is probably close at hand for somebody, somewhere)

Andy
 
Andy,

I'm sorry, I thought you wanted the gerbers...

When I get home I will generate PDFs and upload them to my website.

You might want to get factory made boards, as there are plated holes under some of the caps. These will not get soldered using double sided PCBs

\Jens
 
Thanks Jens

I can't really afford getting factory production for 2 boards (unless of course enough members are interested in another GB!).

I've had enough practice getting around the plated-through problem, believe me.

You stick a fine wire through the hole first, bend it flat with the board on both sides, solder on both sides, using minimal solder, and snip off excess . You solder to the side of the hole, not directly above it, so as not to clog the hole with solder.
You then insert your component and solder on the bottom as usual.
Presto!

The pre-soldered wire will wicker solder through the hole and fill the hole with solder during component soldering.

If the hole is too small for 2 wires you enlarge it.

You can also use a tiny eyelet (like a rivet) to make an electrical connection between the 2 sides of a hole.
They sell them here:

http://www.internationaleyelets.com/eyelets.htm

Most of their types cost about $6-7 USD per 100. You would only use a few eyelets per board--only in the most difficult holes.

Andy
 
Hello,
I see that there is someone interested in leach PCB with 6 bjt, like me, so I think that it would be possible to start another buy group if there will be other people interested.

I have built the leach ampli, using the master of Prof. Leach and modern transistors, but too much wires represent a serious risk of oscillation in high frequencies, infact during the firs test, on only one channel an expensive tweeter burn out!

Becouse in Italy we say that "every beatle is beatiful for its mother", I gave the ampli, whitout any information on inner tecnology, to an audiophile group for listening test.
They said me that the ampli sounds very well, also in the comparative test with some famous commercial ampli, only the backstage is not completly definited and that it has the sound of bjt ampli (of course!), not very warm like mosfet.

Now I will buid a definitive version with particular care for phase error to improve the backstage listening impression and I need of two PCBs on Rasmussen design that seems (to me) very well done (and Thougt first!).

Sorry for my English, I'm Italian mothertongue, and bye bye, Giuseppe.
 
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