The Apple diyMod: My Take on the Famous iMod [56k killer] Featuring 3G, 4G, 5G and nano 1G! - Page 120

amplifier valve kits, HIFI pre-amplifiers, speaker kits, upgrade components has Elna Cerafine and Slimic II's and still has the originally recommended Black Gate NX-HQ's, no MUSE fine gold's though. p&p is £3.21 for small orders and they have always sent my orders quickly.

Hope that helps

Thanks for that. Unfortunately not in the sizes I want. He recons he will have then in a fortnight or so. Very helpful on the phone

anyone manage to get caps AND acharge/sync mini USB socket in the one LOD yet?? just spent the last couple of days trying to get it done. only way I can think to make it work is to have the 22uf BG hiQ not 47uf installed in a large mini like XLO or canare and then install the USB socket in the LOD connector. I tried twice unsuccessfully to fit both in the dock connector and all was well until I glued it shut. even though it was filled with epoxy and the wires were all insulated I figure the pins must've been pushed together (the only part not insulated but had plenty of epoxy on them) when I put it in the vice. I may never know what went wrong because I smashed the cable into little pieces. was all working great until I tested it after. I cant think of a way for me to find more room in the LOD except maybe using very thin wires for the audio connections. as it was I was using 22AWG jena and 20AWG cryo silver and 34AWG SPC for the USB was quite neatly done although it looks a little ghetto because of all the epoxy I had to use and I actually thought i'd done it the second time round (first time I used 18AWG jena instead of the 22AWG. and it too was very close. had to modify the inside to fit the caps in the corners near the cable exit so they didnt get pushed out towards the locking pins, rendering them useless. could maybe get it done with purely charge or sync, but not both; with both it means the whole front of the connector is off limits because you are using too many pins for there to be room to squueze even a 22uf in between like I do sometimes with a regular DIYMOD LOD. any idea I havent mentioned would be much appreciated

LOL yeah; loads of room hehe. yeah thats the one i'm using excuse the grubby glue fingers. this was obviosly before clean up.. epoxy is sooo messy. wish hotglue held and seal as well




actually just checked and its not 34AWg im using for the USB, I think its 30 and i've never had any problems using that before. never put on in a capped LOD before though; only in a VCAP or a regular LOD. not sure if youve done it before either judging by some of the language you used in your post. like 'hopefully'.

so it would seem; I was soooo close and I think I can do it with the 22uf either by squeezing it in or by putting the caps in the mini; but yeah If I used 24AWG all would heva been well, was that close, but unfortunately jena doesnt come in 24AWG. wish it did. will have to make a mundorf version and with a 3 wire braid no USB ground sounds like a winner

yeah never needed to use the shield in an LOD before. so are you saying I can omit the USB ground alltogether as long as the LOD is grounded??



yeah thats what I did with the first LOD with the 22uf as they fit in the corners, the 47 dont really, but the first one I used 18AWG jena so it didnt fit, was sooo close though

will do

if it was for me I wouldnt bother with it, but as it isnt I feel better with it there.; but will keep to a minimum and apply just the once at the end when i'm sealing it up. this one I added it twice and I think that was the problem in the end. I added it once to seal off the pins on LOD and USB connector and then again when closing. so the wires couldnt really move and because I used epoxy instead of hot glue, I couldnt hit it with the hot air to soften it. I use epoxy as it seals the jena and stops the legendary discolouration cant have that

ahha so you havent done it?? it worked out in my head too i'll let you know how it goes for sure. wont be doing it until the 2uf get here; I ran out on the first LOD and oly had 47uf for this one. used all my 22uf last week on other stuff. tried a couple in gamma1... did nt like it. I dont thing BG are that great for builds like that; really good for their size, but if I have room I always use something else. people seem to be going BG crazy over on the gamma1 thread though. dont know what the fuss is about personally

Guys, this may seem like a silly question but I've been looking for a number of hours and was wondering how the uF rating of a capacitor changes the sound? Does it alter impedance? Also when doing the DIYMod, does it matter what voltage the capacitors are?

Thanks guys, I'd really appreciate your help on this one - got my 80g 5.5g rocking up this week and would like to get it set up with my fiio e5 (temporary) as soon as possible!

22uf + less epoxy = win!!

didnt actually think about the fact that I wouldnt actually need much in the way of epoxy for strain relief (juts a dab initially to seal th jena and pins in place and a tiny bit to keep th dock shut) the dock is jammed enough that the friction alone will stp anything from moving in there as long as its shut. BTW glue and epoxy in my wording before were interchangable. I didnt use hot glue as well, just epoxy. either way it works, will have to put together a tutorial next time

tomorrow, its 3.30am here in OZ last time I woke everyone up turning lights on to try pics I got yelled at by my flatmate

Wait, isn't it already tomorrow in Oz?

So where are those pics? Are you still asleep?!?! Wake up slacker!

j/k I'm looking forward to seeing your result. I've wanted to build this same concept for awhile now. I want an LOD with bypass caps inside and a mini USB for charging. Being able to access it on the PC would be nice, but mostly I need charging for in the car.

no thats perfect - excellent food for thought. Thanks so much for your help!

Finally got my act together and tried to do the mod... would anybody be able to hazard a guess as to why the sound on the right is very very soft? There's sound, as long as I pump up the volume I can hear it... would it be my dock or the diymod, or how should I go about testing it?