Its alive!
Played around with the lay out and liked the weight balanced with the toroidal dead center. Going to clean up stuff, move wires a bit and make the other daughter cards still but she's singing!
Not much experience with snap in caps - are you guys soldering them or just pop em in and that's all? They feel secure and its nice to be able to swap easily down the road so I didn't solder.
Played around with the lay out and liked the weight balanced with the toroidal dead center. Going to clean up stuff, move wires a bit and make the other daughter cards still but she's singing!
Not much experience with snap in caps - are you guys soldering them or just pop em in and that's all? They feel secure and its nice to be able to swap easily down the road so I didn't solder.
It seems I like to live on the edge! Glad I asked, the power supply board is a very snug fit on those caps so they weren't going anywhere but I soldered them in for good tonight. Thanks for the warning everyone! All good and the DC offset is literally 0.00V after sitting for an hour. Time to get cracking on those daughter cards now . . .
What is the DC voltage at the first filter cap? They are rated for 25V, not a lot of wiggle room if your transformer secondaries are greater than 18V.
I'm running an AS-3218 transfo so its 18v. Figured that was enough margin that I didn't need to step up to 35v rated caps. Output DC is 24v.