Baby express in the roundhouse

[romberg]

Just need to connect all the "dots" with wire and fire her up. This little 4-4-0 is the
first amp I've built not from a kit. The chassis is a little rough as I'm too cheap to buy hole punches .

Mike

[Cygnus X1]

Looks great!
How does it sound?

[romberg]

Right now it is totally hiss and hum free and pretty low gain.

I'll post some clips after it is wired up.

Mike

[xtian]

Laught riot.

Love that Edcor iron.

[romberg]

Got the board populated. So, it is now one step closer to being either an amp or an electric squealing machine.

Mike

[romberg]

Got the heaters wired up. Sorta tried to keep it similar to pictures I've seen here:

http://home.comcast.net/~mike.romberg/a ... 5.JPG.html

Since it is painful to go back and redo heaters, anyone notice any glaring problem with this?

Thanks,

Mike

[Blackburn]

Which Edcor PT are you using? I've one with the 245-0-245 for an AC30TB/Rocket kinda thing and hope to use it soon. Curious to see how yours turns out and mine too, eventually.

[romberg]

I'm using the XPWR013-120 which is 255-0-255 @125mA. Kinda overkill for this little 2 watter. But leaves some room if I wanna add another octal tube in the future.

Another power tube would be a better match for the OT (CXP10-MS-10k). But I think I'm kinda pushing my luck space-wise as it is. So, I'll think about that after things are stable with 2 watts.

Mike

[Colossal]

Geat looking preamp board! very clean!

[EtherealWidow]

Wow. Yeah, those Edcors are beautiful. They look good with the blue everything else.

[M Fowler]

Nice looking build.

Now you guys know why I use Edcor transformers and blue tone boards.

[EtherealWidow]

How do they sound for guitar amps?

[M Fowler]

How do they sound for guitar amps?

Edcor transformers sound great for guitar amps.

Mark

[EtherealWidow]

Awesome to know. For some reason I was always afraid they were more of a HiFi thing.

[romberg]

Awesome to know. For some reason I was always afraid they were more of a HiFi thing.

The OT I have came with screen/ultra-linear taps. I'm just gonna coil those up and set 'em aside. They do have OTs without the taps and some are listed as compatible replacements for guitar amps. I just needed one with as much primary impedance as I could get for the 6SN7.

Mike

P.S. I too am glad to hear that they sound good for guitars!