Looks good, personally id upgrade those output wires to a bit thickerThats kinda small wire..
Hi
Its just a twisted pair cat5 cable. What would you suggest? The reason why I choose this, apart from having a pile of it, was that Dave (Planet10) suggests using a single pair for the speakers cables.
That is one beautiful amp, congratulations.
I found your amp very interesting because I was planning my build to be very similar, although with Peter Daniels boards.
I must say, I would not normally speak up, but I must agree with jleaman - that cat5 output wire has gots to go!
As for a suggestion, I would say 18 or 16-guage. I am going to be using regular old stranded copper 16g.
Once again, hurrah on another F5 added to the world, I sure wish I could get mine done!
I found your amp very interesting because I was planning my build to be very similar, although with Peter Daniels boards.
I must say, I would not normally speak up, but I must agree with jleaman - that cat5 output wire has gots to go!
As for a suggestion, I would say 18 or 16-guage. I am going to be using regular old stranded copper 16g.
Once again, hurrah on another F5 added to the world, I sure wish I could get mine done!
You really need to use speaker cable for the output, or at least something much thicker. I don't think cat5 will handle any significant current (2A at a guess).
You are also increasing the output impedance of the amp.
If the insulation melts, then you are going to short the amp (because of the twisted pair).
Hi
I have some DHLABS silver plated hook-up wire. It has a diameter of around 1.5mm
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Will this be OK?
I have some DHLABS silver plated hook-up wire. It has a diameter of around 1.5mm
wire_hookup_dhlabs
Will this be OK?
I just did a quick google search; 1.5 mm is about .05 inches which is about 16 gauge which is about about 13 amps. Should be plenty.
There are a lot of web sites out there that give wire diameter and current limits. Here is one: Xtronics Wiki.
There are a lot of web sites out there that give wire diameter and current limits. Here is one: Xtronics Wiki.
All done. I also changed the input to an old shielded RCA cable
So how does it sound?
A CAT5 cable consists of 4 twisted pairs of 24AWG (or possibly 23AWG). A pair of CAT5 cables would yield 18AWG speaker cables. I don't think Planet10 meant a single twisted pair of 24AWG as speaker cables.
Hi Tosh
I'm not sure if it was this thread but the info appears here too.
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/full-range/108029-using-cat5-speaker-wire.html
I apologise if I have misunderstood. I've changed the cables now so it doesn't really matter.