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Bottlehead Kits => Kaiju Stereo 300B amp => Topic started by: Rocketman248 on November 04, 2016, 01:43:04 AM

Title: It pays to read the instructions carefully
Post by: Rocketman248 on November 04, 2016, 01:43:04 AM

It happens to the best of us.  We get a couple builds under our belts, and we start getting too confident, just skimming the steps.  Been building the Kaiju slowly over the past few evenings.  Everything is going well until I get to the C4S boards. 

"Insert a 220 ohm resistor into the B side." 

uh...I don't have any of those left.  I used all those when I wired up the A and D sockets.  *reads back through the manual*

Oh.  Those were only used on the A socket.  Not the D socket. 

Looks like I'm going shopping for more resistors.... :-[  ::)

Title: Re: It pays to read the instructions carefully
Post by: johnsonad on November 04, 2016, 03:15:42 AM

Thankfully you can head up to Tokyo and source them locally vs. ordering online.  I miss that about living in Japan!

Title: Re: It pays to read the instructions carefully
Post by: Rocketman248 on November 04, 2016, 03:11:50 PM

Yep.  That's where I'm headed tomorrow.  And, while I'm in Akihabara, might as well make a stop at e-Earphone and have a look around.  There's also a really nice tube store called Classic Components.  That's always worth a visit.

Title: Re: It pays to read the instructions carefully
Post by: johnsonad on November 04, 2016, 03:28:50 PM

There are a couple of great used record stores in that area also. I picked up hundreds of LP's for 100-500 yen each. I really miss Tokyo....