100 watt ODS build

[davebolden44]

here are some pics of my latest build.

[davebolden44]

Pics in no particular order. classictone trannies, ce chassis, ceriatone parts kit. Thanks to Taylor at Amplified Nation for the rad box to put it in. Upgraded a few of the main filter caps to F+T's. I always put hot glue and weather stripping on my caps for whatever reason and use my trusty label maker. Sounds bad to the bone. I love seeing everyone's builds on here so I thought I would share, enjoy.

[norburybrook]

Nice Dave, I see you have your light bulb limiter in the background, that saved me on my recent build with a duff diode in my FWBR.

OD trimmer pot on the back, I've never done this but it seems such a good idea I wonder why HAD never did, or perhaps he did and I haven't seen an example.

first thing I noticed though was your use of a time machine.....you've made it in the future.....5-10-17 to us Europeans is the 5th of October 2017....5 months in the future


Marcus

[M Fowler]

Nice job Dave.

So much wiring work involved with building these amps I can't imagine how Jelle and other sellers do it in quantities.

Mark

[davebolden44]

It took me two days to wire, if a person built them all the time I could see doing it in a day. It isn't my lively-hood though so I could just get a coffee and sit there patiently building all the time, I enjoy it so much. One thing I didn't mention and it isn't shown in the pics, the ce chassis mounting holes did not line up with the holes in the box. I had to replace the standoffs on the fet, bias, and relay boards with taller ones and bolt some 3/4x 3/4 angle to the short sides of the chassis and tap it out for the mounting bolts. I did that yesterday afternoon. I love that blue suede box just as much as the sound of the amp. It definitely pays to have an abundance of parts stocked. I have most of the stuff here to build another one, was thinking 50 watt 6AC7 HRM but we'll see.

[Mr. dB]

What version is it?

[davebolden44]

Its the parts kit from ceriatones 100 watt ots which I think is closely based on 102. I am not entirely sure though.

[amplifiednation]

Looks good!!

[dcribbs1412]

Nice work!
Any pics of how you mounted the chassis?

D

[davebolden44]

No but when I open it up again I will take some. All I did was took some 3/4x3/4 steel angle and bolted it to the sides and tapped the 4 holes out that come down through the top with a 10-32 tap. I just had to shorten a few bolts so they didnt hit any components. In retrospect I would have mounted the last 20uf cap in the power supply underneath the terminal strip but it worked out.