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GlassWare Aikido ACF 9-pin Buffer.. Anyone built one? (jumper/optional cap questions)

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Wikkid

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Aikido Cathode Follower [ACF] Buffer

For 6DJ8, non White-Cathode-Follower configuration, do I:
1. jumper R5? (Y/N)
2. jumper R11? (Y/N)
3. Omit C5 along with C3?

It would be great to have these definitively answered, since that's the last hold up to complting this project!

Thanks in advance!
 
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Wikkid said:
Aikido Cathode Follower [ACF] Buffer

For 6DJ8, non White-Cathode-Follower configuration, do I:
1. jumper R5? (Y/N)
2. jumper R11? (Y/N)
3. Omit C5 along with C3?

It would be great to have these definitively answered, since that's the last hold up to complting this project!

Thanks in advance!
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You cannot jumper R5 that would short the input
R11 is absent is this a typo ?

C3 and C5 should be installed per the manual
 
Wikkid

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Gents... Thanks SO much for your help!

I'm afraid there's been some confusion (on my part) regarding the manual and different versions.. and hence schematics.
I believed that the PDF manual was the same as the printed manual
My sincerest apologies!!!

I've taken a photo of the printed manual that came with the board:
Dropbox - IMG_2531.jpg -

Hoping it all makes sense now...
 
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Wikkid

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Sooo... I had hoped to catch someone who had built this before and hence would know the answers...

It's a bit of a conundrum.. but I'd really like to finish this, so any help forthcoming would be very much appreciated!!!

I will post photos of all the manual pages..
I just don't know what else to do.
Broskie just doesn't reply to emails.
I'm dead in the water...

Thanks again for the patience one and all.....

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Also a pic of the board so far (FWIW)
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In post #6 you posted a schematic that you said was from the printed manual that came with your board. See the first photo below.

In your last post you link to a schematic that according to you also comes form the printed manual that came with your board. See the second photo below.

Are you a troll?
 

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Wikkid

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There are 2 possible configurations..
One is the "Normal Aikido Cathode follower ".
That is what is represented by the schematic in the first photo that you reposted.
The other, optional configuration, is a "White Cathode Follower ".
It is what is represented in the second/bottom photo.

Both possible configurations are presented in the manual.
 
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