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Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone knew what specs does the ALO Vcaps have? I'm planning to do something like that in the near future with cheaper alternative but good caps as well
You could ask him or anyone who bought a portable VCap dock. I figure you could just buy their 1.0uF 250VDC cap and use that. It's the cheapest and will work fine.
The sound is really opening up on my BGed Millett Hybrid MAX and diyMod 4G setup. I feel really immersed in the music, and the bass has finally solidified. I don't know how long this sound sig will last, but it's a nice balance.
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Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone knew what specs does the ALO Vcaps have? I'm planning to do something like that in the near future with cheaper alternative but good caps as well
In the ALO-sponsored forum section, there is a post of a dissected VCap special edition dock. To answer your question, ALO used 4.7uf caps. They also used VCAP 0.1uf teflon caps as a bypass (optional).
How are the bypass caps hooked up with the two primary caps? I think I'm going with Sonicap Gen I as primary caps and using 0.1uf Sonicap Gen II as bypass.
Would it be: input left -> positive lead of primary for left -> positive lead of bypass left then negative lead of left to output left?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Last edited by CAvanessia; 12-31-2007 at 10:05 PM.
I got mine from ebay also. It had a shorter width than the OEM battery. If it was slightly slightly smaller I could fit the 0.47uf caps on the side of the battery. That's something to think about if you could find a battery that is not as wide as OEM.
Or someone could remove the headphone jack to fit the caps.
point 1 are nice to figure out, but removing headphone jack ?! it's a no-no for me... after i change the bypass cable to something smaller (in size) now my new lcd are work properly now but i had a new problem, my clickwheel hadn't working at all...lol silly me... my dock+caps to RCA are ready though, well i use RCA interconnect for a test...before a made my own CMOYamp, then i'll move the dock+caps to normal connector to amping...
From what I gather, you send the signal from the DAC to the amp in series with paralleled caps, each bypassing the other. One size is optimized for higher frequencies and the other is for lower frequencies.
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Lol I'm really confused... will any one be kind enough to draw me a circuit to exactly how I am supposed to do it??? From the 3.5mm input jack to the output jack???
Try this out. CLb and CRb are the bypass (or CLa and CRa, whichever you prefer). Let one set be the 47uF BGs or equivalent high quality caps, and let the other set be the ~0.1uF bypass caps. As for input and output jacks, you can put them wherever you like, as long as the circuit looks the same.
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Try this out. CLb and CRb are the bypass (or CLa and CRa, whichever you prefer). Let one set be the 47uF BGs or equivalent high quality caps, and let the other set be the ~0.1uF bypass caps. As for input and output jacks, you can put them wherever you like, as long as the circuit looks the same.
Cool - basically just put the caps in parallel. In the thread I read, the 4.7uf caps were in the "driving seat" and the 0.1uf caps were the bypass. How does this setup differentiate between the caps or is it just some electrical thing we don't have to worry about?
after i change the bypass cable to something smaller (in size) now my new lcd are work properly now but i had a new problem, my clickwheel hadn't working at all...lol silly me...
my dock+caps to RCA are ready though, well i use RCA interconnect for a test...before a made my own CMOYamp, then i'll move the dock+caps to normal connector to amping...
