50w Hot Rod Plexi AFD #39

[M Fowler]

Thanks it does look good.

The owner sent a photo of amp on his cabinet, sweet!

Glad your enjoying your build that's great.

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Mark

[purpletele]

Starting my 50 Watt Hot Rod Plexi

Seems to be coming together well.







Brian Vallis

[M Fowler]

Brian,


Looking good keep us informed, I know in your last email you were busy with life so I it's always fun to see photos of your project.


Mark

[purpletele]

A little progress

[dorrisant]

Beautiful!!

[M Fowler]

I liking the photos and glad your making progress.

I have one 50w HRP left for myself but might sell it as I really don't need it.
Got a local guitar/amp show March 10th so I wanted to keep it around for my wall of doom presentation.

Mark

[purpletele]

I botched my board by freehanding the layout without having the Filter caps in hand.

I am having a new board built by Hoffman and I am taking off the 3-20 uF and 47 uF/500 Caps and replacing them with an interior mounted multi cap.

I'll have to do my own Visio drawing to make sure I wire it correctly.

I small set back, I'll be caught up in a few days.

BV

[M Fowler]

There are a lot of new caps out there that are physically much smaller with same value.

[Mark]

Mark, what are the latest and greatest caps these days?

I'm a bit out of the loop that way.

Thanks Mark.

[M Fowler]

Mark,

I use

M150's Mallory
Sozo
Mojo Dejon
ERO

New Sozo 250pf & 500pf/1000v in treble cap position and other places.

[purpletele]

There are a lot of new caps out there that are physically much smaller with same value.

I flat out bothched my first board by being lazy. I laid out anothe board properly with all of the correct filter caps and the board came to 17", I haven't pulled the trigger on that board yet.
I am using a JTM 45 chassis so the 17 inches was too long by an inch.

I have it worked out with a muti-cap but I'm shy by 7 uF, I hope that doesn't affect the fire breathing too much.

I'll be back in the game tomorrow, Hoffman is efficient with his boards and shipping. I have a board coming with only the two 50 uF 600's on the board.

[M Fowler]

I use a 20" long chassis and my boards are around 19.75" so I can have lots of board room and I like the looks.

Hope you get your board stuffed and build back on track but take it slow.

Mark

[purpletele]

Progress Update


Starting to look like an amplifier!

I need to study the guidelines for polarity so I can get my Sozo caps aligned correctly. Missing a few parts but it is coming together well.

Does anyone have a better source for .68 Caps? The smallest ones that I found were big. I think I bought them from Antique Electronics.

[Mark]

I use

M150's Mallory
Sozo
Mojo Dejon
ERO

New Sozo 250pf & 500pf/1000v in treble cap position and other places.

Thanks Mark.

[joeboo88]

Does anyone have a better source for .68 Caps? The smallest ones that I found were big. I think I bought them from Antique Electronics.
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LOL - when I saw those big yellow caps I was laughing because I used the same ones in my build and they didnt fit very well

so I used "Capacitor - 630V, Polypropylene, radial leads" from Antique electronics - they are smaller but they are red

Joe