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    Starving Student PCB's

    Should be ample current for it. Enough for adding a bunch of LEDs too.
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    Starving Student PCB's

    The original used a .38A (or 380mA) PS. The .313A might not be enough to get it up and running. You planning on using some LEDs with it? Power LED, tube LEDs? The tube heater draws 150mA of current, and since you have two tubes both will draw 300mA of current. Throw in a LED or two tube LEDs and...
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    Millett "Starving Student" hybrid amp

    If you don't want tube LEDs just omit them and their associated resistors.
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    Starving Student PCB's

    Got mine today. Looks good. Thanks!
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    Millett "Starving Student" hybrid amp

    Quote: The minimum is 48 volts, 0.38A, so 0.4A is enough to get it up and running.
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    Millett "Starving Student" hybrid amp

    Quote:   It does indeed get hot, that's perfectly normal for this amp. How hot it gets is also a function of how large the heatsinks you used are. Bigger heatsinks cool things better.
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    Please Recommend an AD8397 Pocket Amp Schematic

    Hmm less robust is debatable... My Mini3 with ARZ still going strong after nearly 3 years. The opamp doesn't get really hot in use either. Running form the line out of my iPod with volume knob @ 12 o'clock into a 32 ohm Sennheiser PX-100ii (= pretty loud, borders on the uncomfortable for me) I...
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    Please Recommend an AD8397 Pocket Amp Schematic

    Quote: The AD8397 comes in two flavors, the -ARDZ and the -ARZ. The -ARDZ has the E-pad, which allows you to use the PCB as a heatsink for better cooling for higher power applications. In the Mini3 the -ARDZ can be replaced with the -ARZ, see Mini3 construction notes. My Mini3 has the...
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    Dipping my toe - where to buy DIY cables/connectors in Europe?

    This one perhaps? http://www.qables.com/shop/
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    Millett "Starving Student" hybrid amp

    Quote:   My build didn't have a power LED, the tube LEDs double as a pair of power LEDs. I connected the on-off-on switch, LED resistors and both tube LEDs to the 48 volts right after the power switch. For the LED resistors I used two resistors in parallel to distribute the power...
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    Millett "Starving Student" hybrid amp

    Quote:   Consider using an on-off-on switch so you switch of the LEDs with the switch in its central position.   Need LED resitor values? Check this: http://led.linear1.org/1led.wiz
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    The GrubDAC

    Quote:   Looking good Mullett!
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    my DAC design - pup1 DAC

    Nice touch, having added a puppy! I'm glad to see there's still progress.
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    Millett "Starving Student" hybrid amp

    For the sake of tinkering, you can make the tube LEDs switchable. I wired a on-off-on switch between the tube LEDs, I can run them at two different levels of brightness.
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