Power Crack On Steroids

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Offline Tom-s

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on: July 03, 2016, 05:01:30 AM
It's over. It's done!

After almost 12 months with my crack i'm finally done building it.
Started out as a normal crack. Then speedball. Caught the modding bug, and the never-ending story begun.
It was a journey in search of the perfect sound, the cleanest soldering, the best cable routing and interference-less position for components.
Thanks Bottlehead. I learned a lot from this project!

In order of implementation:
- Speedball
- Stepped attenuator
- Schottky diodes
- Speedball 12bh7/e80cc mod
- Dual choke in Power Supply
- FAQ #3
- New housing for Crack On Steroids
- Russian paper in oil output capacitors with new alloy frame inside
- Russian teflon bypass for the output capacitors
- Russian paper in oil last PS cap bypass
- Power-amp: Direct wiring of RCA's to input tube (removal volume pot)
- Speedball Maxhawk's switchboards for 12au7/e80cc/12bh7 and 5687 tubes
- 730uf PS cap upgrade for cap 1 and 2
- 120uf film cap for last PS capacitor and removal of PIO bypass.
- Bottlehead Badge
- Done :-).

Pictures:
http://ep1.pinkbike.org/p5pb13669237/p5pb13669237.jpg
http://ep1.pinkbike.org/p5pb13669238/p5pb13669238.jpg
http://ep1.pinkbike.org/p5pb13669239/p5pb13669239.jpg
http://ep1.pinkbike.org/p5pb13669242/p5pb13669242.jpg

@ Mods; posted this wrong. if needed, please move to gallery, thnx
« Last Edit: February 26, 2019, 11:02:57 AM by Tom-s »



Offline Paul Birkeland

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Reply #1 on: July 05, 2016, 09:01:15 AM
You're running out of room in there!

Paul "PB" Birkeland

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Offline Tom-s

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Reply #2 on: July 05, 2016, 11:48:23 AM
With this housing i got plenty left.
Even wondering if it would benefit from the three 220uf capacitors paralleled to the 120uf film capacitor.



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Reply #3 on: July 06, 2016, 04:09:31 AM
Gonna need a lift kit!!

Aaron Luebke