When should I have soldered the 2 drain wires at the Center terminal of D?

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Offline PaulG

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It only took three days for me to get my courage up to dismount the shunt board and check every solder joint and then reinstall. 
I did find some sketchy joints and that I had missed the end of one resistor entirely. 
I just checked the voltages and they are now in spec.  D1 is now 223.0 VDC  and D6 (which was 139 VDC) is now 222.8 VDC.

Thank you again for your wisdom and encouragement.

Have a great weekend.

Paul Grisanti
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built Heathkits in the late 1960's
built two Audio by VanAlstine kits in 1990


Offline Paul Birkeland

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I'm glad you got it sorted.  In the Eros 2, we made some adjustments to make it much easier to pop that board off if necessary.

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Great news! 
I made it all the way to page 66 of the Eros instructions before finding myself flumoxed again. 
The instructions call for a 1uF 630V Film Capacitor Plus another of the same spec on page 67. 
My kit came with two 1.50 uF 630V Film Capacitors by the same manufacturer with the same appearance.
Is this a point where I should stop and order parts?
Are larger capacitors a running change that occured back in 2015?

Paul Grisanti
Gentleman of a certain age
built Heathkits in the late 1960's
built two Audio by VanAlstine kits in 1990


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In the immortal words of Emily Litella, "Never Mind" I just read a post in which Paul Joppa explained the running change that put 1.50 uF 630V Capacitors In my kit rather than the 1.0 uF version in the instructions.  Hope you all having a great weekend.

Paul Grisanti
Gentleman of a certain age
built Heathkits in the late 1960's
built two Audio by VanAlstine kits in 1990