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Nice work! Thanks for sharing.
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One super small correction I tracked down is the placement of one of the legs on the .1uf in the phase inverter causing a low-level hum that wouldn't get louder with the gain/master sweep. Rafael helped with a super deep dive into ground loop troubleshooting however it turned out to be a simple mistake on my end. I'm glad I did the hybrid eyelet design with this PCB! Sounds like a dream and shakes the house with strong bass!
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rccolgan wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 8:38 pm One super small correction I tracked down is the placement of one of the legs on the .1uf in the phase inverter causing a low-level hum that wouldn't get louder with the gain/master sweep. Rafael helped with a super deep dive into ground loop troubleshooting however it turned out to be a simple mistake on my end. I'm glad I did the hybrid eyelet design with this PCB! Sounds like a dream and shakes the house with strong bass!
Glad to help as always, but even happier you managed to sort it out :)
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rccolgan wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 7:48 pm Fast forwarding a lot quicker than I anticipated... Confirmed build! Sounds great with everything added up! Voltages are in line with the original units and I'm going to let it burn in a while and I'll measure again. I guess that means the boards are good too! The PCB was nice to work with. I did remove and replace a few resistors (I got some NOS stuff in) and the boards held up wonderfully with rework. I'm happy to make them available to everyone else well. https://www.thetonegeek.com/product-pag ... -pre-order

As always, TAG is such a wealth of knowledge that I'm happy to share back. I'll create a BOM and layout over the next couple of weeks with the corrected values as a foundation.
This looks amazing, I just put my order Ryan on your website, looking forward to putting this amp together, is amazing the work you are doing! Just good stuff! By the way, are. Do you include your faceplates? it would be nice to have them.

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davecj wrote: Tue Nov 16, 2021 5:38 am
rccolgan wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 7:48 pm Fast forwarding a lot quicker than I anticipated... Confirmed build! Sounds great with everything added up! Voltages are in line with the original units and I'm going to let it burn in a while and I'll measure again. I guess that means the boards are good too! The PCB was nice to work with. I did remove and replace a few resistors (I got some NOS stuff in) and the boards held up wonderfully with rework. I'm happy to make them available to everyone else well. https://www.thetonegeek.com/product-pag ... -pre-order

As always, TAG is such a wealth of knowledge that I'm happy to share back. I'll create a BOM and layout over the next couple of weeks with the corrected values as a foundation.
This looks amazing, I just put my order Ryan on your website, looking forward to putting this amp together, is amazing the work you are doing! Just good stuff! By the way, are. Do you include your faceplates? it would be nice to have them.

Thanks,
David Cadenas Jimenez
Thanks, man! I appreciate your kind words! I have faceplates on the way for Ceriatone's chassis for an additional cost. (Not everyone needs the faceplates so it made sense for me to separate them out)
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Thanks, men, perfect, how much in addition, do you have the faceplates on your website? Lastly, do you recommend in addition to the chassis the cabinet from ceriatone? Or do you have any other supplier for the cabinet?
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davecj wrote: Wed Nov 17, 2021 6:49 am Thanks, men, perfect, how much in addition, do you have the faceplates on your website? Lastly, do you recommend in addition to the chassis the cabinet from ceriatone? Or do you have any other supplier for the cabinet?
I have a Ceriatone chassis coming in the mail to confirm my faceplate designs and then I'll put them up for sale. I'm thinking $65 for the set which is right around what the Ceriatone faceplates cost.

For cabinets, there are a few choices for D-style cabinets including Ceriatone, eBay, Amplified Nation, Guitar Cabinets Direct, etc. I think there are a few in the UK as well. Since this amp has reverb, the taller the cabinet the better. The original is 11" high wood-to-wood
https://www.two-rock.com/ownermanuals/trjmsmanual.pdf
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rccolgan wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 2:09 am
davecj wrote: Wed Nov 17, 2021 6:49 am Thanks, men, perfect, how much in addition, do you have the faceplates on your website? Lastly, do you recommend in addition to the chassis the cabinet from ceriatone? Or do you have any other supplier for the cabinet?
I have a Ceriatone chassis coming in the mail to confirm my faceplate designs and then I'll put them up for sale. I'm thinking $65 for the set which is right around what the Ceriatone faceplates cost.

For cabinets, there are a few choices for D-style cabinets including Ceriatone, eBay, Amplified Nation, Guitar Cabinets Direct, etc. I think there are a few in the UK as well. Since this amp has reverb, the taller the cabinet the better. The original is 11" high wood-to-wood
https://www.two-rock.com/ownermanuals/trjmsmanual.pdf

Hey Ryan, Thanks for your comments, I have received the PCB board!YEY! I'm looking forward to your updates in terms of the Ceriatone Chassis and faceplates, layout, so I can pull the trigger. In addition, as I am a beginner on amp building, I'm was looking at the documentation that you have posted on the PCB boards page on your website, and I saw you have a mouser bom as WIP as well, and I was wondering if still in progress? or is good to go and proceed to buy those components to start buildind? Lastly, are you putting toguether any other bom for the rest of amp parts such as transformer, tubes, capacitors etc, as you did with the 002? sorry, a lot of questions, I'm wrapping my head around how/where to start!
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davecj wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:28 am
rccolgan wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 2:09 am
davecj wrote: Wed Nov 17, 2021 6:49 am Thanks, men, perfect, how much in addition, do you have the faceplates on your website? Lastly, do you recommend in addition to the chassis the cabinet from ceriatone? Or do you have any other supplier for the cabinet?
I have a Ceriatone chassis coming in the mail to confirm my faceplate designs and then I'll put them up for sale. I'm thinking $65 for the set which is right around what the Ceriatone faceplates cost.

For cabinets, there are a few choices for D-style cabinets including Ceriatone, eBay, Amplified Nation, Guitar Cabinets Direct, etc. I think there are a few in the UK as well. Since this amp has reverb, the taller the cabinet the better. The original is 11" high wood-to-wood
https://www.two-rock.com/ownermanuals/trjmsmanual.pdf

Hey Ryan, Thanks for your comments, I have received the PCB board!YEY! I'm looking forward to your updates in terms of the Ceriatone Chassis and faceplates, layout, so I can pull the trigger. In addition, as I am a beginner on amp building, I'm was looking at the documentation that you have posted on the PCB boards page on your website, and I saw you have a mouser bom as WIP as well, and I was wondering if still in progress? or is good to go and proceed to buy those components to start buildind? Lastly, are you putting toguether any other bom for the rest of amp parts such as transformer, tubes, capacitors etc, as you did with the 002? sorry, a lot of questions, I'm wrapping my head around how/where to start!
Great timing! I just finished the two BOMs. Let me know if I missed anything!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing for amp specific parts
https://www.mouser.com/ProjectManager/P ... 0e10ecf4c Mouser BOM (look out for things back ordered) Everything was available as of 12/1/21

I have the Ceriatone chassis on the way and I have the faceplates for them on-hand so I'll check it as soon as it comes in. I am also going to share the PDF for anyone who wants to make their own faceplates instead of using mine. Of course, it'll be up to you to work with a faceplate manufacturer to get it in their specific specs if you go the custom route. Everyone prefers something different based on their setup.
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hi Ryan,

great job .... congratulations. I have already built 4 JM amps by mediating between the Ceriatone lay-out and the news I found on TAG.

I bought the signal card and the PS card from you and they arrived today, once again great job.

This time I would like to build "my JM" and keep it. As I have done the other times I will buy a chassis from Tube Town and I will drill all the necessary holes but this time I would like it to look more like Two Rock than a traditional Dumble.

I can ask you if you made the face plates for your amplifier or if there is a drawing of these. It would be really cool if there was a drawing of where the holes are drilled on the chassis.

Thank you for your support.
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Thank you for your kind words, Franco!

Here are the PDFs to the Ceriatone JM100 and the Amplified Nation JM Chassis on GitHub for version control https://github.com/colganr/tr-jm-signat ... /Faceplate.
Additionally, here is my EasyEDA project folder where I dropped the source files if you are familiar with EasyEDA. Please clone to your own profile before editing. https://oshwlab.com/prosboarder/public-facing-files
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rccolgan wrote: Fri Dec 03, 2021 11:15 am Thank you for your kind words, Franco!

Here are the PDFs to the Ceriatone JM100 and the Amplified Nation JM Chassis on GitHub for version control https://github.com/colganr/tr-jm-signat ... /Faceplate.
Additionally, here is my EasyEDA project folder where I dropped the source files if you are familiar with EasyEDA. Please clone to your own profile before editing. https://oshwlab.com/prosboarder/public-facing-files
thanks Ryan, as usual a great job.

I have already used a chassis and Ceriatone face plates (the plastic of these is a bit too thin in my opinion), do you think it is possible to find a file that indicates where to drill the holes in the blank chassis?

Thank you again
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jazzbass wrote: Fri Dec 03, 2021 4:50 pm
rccolgan wrote: Fri Dec 03, 2021 11:15 am Thank you for your kind words, Franco!

Here are the PDFs to the Ceriatone JM100 and the Amplified Nation JM Chassis on GitHub for version control https://github.com/colganr/tr-jm-signat ... /Faceplate.
Additionally, here is my EasyEDA project folder where I dropped the source files if you are familiar with EasyEDA. Please clone to your own profile before editing. https://oshwlab.com/prosboarder/public-facing-files
thanks Ryan, as usual a great job.

I have already used a chassis and Ceriatone face plates (the plastic of these is a bit too thin in my opinion), do you think it is possible to find a file that indicates where to drill the holes in the blank chassis?

Thank you again
Franco
Interesting use case! The PDFs are 1:1 so you could technically print them out at 1:1 scale and drill what you want. The faceplate material I have is .08mm and it's just thin enough to use without thread issues in the pots
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Ryan wrote: "Interesting use case! PDFs are 1: 1, so you can technically print them at 1: 1 scale and punch whatever you want. The faceplate material I have is 0.08mm and it is thin enough that you can be used without wire problems in pots ".

Sure Ryan and thanks, certainly I explained myself badly, I meant the holes for the transformers, the valves, the standoffs. No problem anyway, apart from the first chassis purchased by Nik, for the other chassis I made the holes starting from this file "chassis_holes_guide_1v1_752.pdf" but I don't remember where I found it anymore ...... maybe in some discussion here on TAG.

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Ah. I see. I just uploaded a 1:1 PDF of the bottom chassis cutout. Let me know if that's what you're looking for.
https://github.com/colganr/tr-jm-signat ... er/Chassis

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