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Jul 17, 2008 at 10:15 PM Post #680 of 7,277
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I totally want to see how the Mini Millet come on this forum!


Heh heh, I wanna see the Mosfet Max website!
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Tee-hee Tom, I guess July is the new March!
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Haha, no hurries though; we all are really appreciative of all the work you've done on these projects!
 
Jul 17, 2008 at 10:57 PM Post #681 of 7,277
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Heh heh, I wanna see the Mosfet Max website!
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Tee-hee Tom, I guess July is the new March!
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Haha, no hurries though; we all are really appreciative of all the work you've done on these projects!


Yeah, we're behind - that's true. However, we're trying to get the power supply as clean as we can make it. I've got a lot of work to do this weekend concerning that. Bottom line, cetoole and I are perhaps within a week or two of ordering prototype MiniMAX boards. The MOSFET-MAX may be closer than that.

But I digress ... and discussing this is a thread-jack - even if it's still "all things Millett." So, please accept my apologies, Pete/Nate. You all know where to look to find the updates on this other stuff, though.
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Jul 18, 2008 at 8:06 PM Post #682 of 7,277
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Ugh, these darned things arrived in the mail today. Looks like I have to build an amplifier now.
 
Jul 18, 2008 at 8:33 PM Post #683 of 7,277
Somewhere in this thread it says that "R3 and R9 should be directly connected to the gate legs of the MOSFETs" - how important is the "directly" bit of this. Would an inch or so of wire make any difference?

Also, would it be OK if I connected C3 and C5 to pin 3 of the valve bases (and then run a wire from pin 3 to the source leg of the FET) rather than directly to the source legs of the MOSFETs (for neatness reasons as the valves are closer to the output jack than the FETs are in my layout)?

Sorry if these are stupid questions - I've never worked a layout out from a schematic before.
 
Jul 18, 2008 at 9:25 PM Post #684 of 7,277
It is a good idea if you can, but I definitely believe that you can have a small piece of coated and/or tinned wire between the two.

My case is thicker than any I have seen on the forum and that made me have to use a small piece of wire to extend the pins, that one included. The whole thing is to be reasonable and try to keep it as close as you can. Make sure that you have very secure and clean solder joints as this always translates to a better overall product.
 
Jul 18, 2008 at 9:35 PM Post #685 of 7,277
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Somewhere in this thread it says that "R3 and R9 should be directly connected to the gate legs of the MOSFETs" - how important is the "directly" bit of this. Would an inch or so of wire make any difference?


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2. Do you have R3 and R9 tied directly to the gate legs of the MOSFETs? Pete and Nate both have mentioned a couple of times that might induce oscillation if that isn't done. It's hard to say if that attributes to the hum, but my guess is that it will definitely cause more noise.


The reason for this is the additional inductance of either long leads or wire. I'm guessing that additional wire/lead length on the other side of R3/R9 is not critical, but that is just a guess.
 
Jul 19, 2008 at 10:38 AM Post #686 of 7,277
Thanks -=Germainia=- and Pars - I'll take that advice onboard. Regarding the C3 and C5 question, I've just looked at the photos of vixr's build a few pages back, and it looks like he's connected those the same way as I was intending.

Thanks again!
 
Jul 19, 2008 at 3:19 PM Post #687 of 7,277
I'm just about to start my build and I have a few questions.

I was print out the data sheets in preparation of drilling the holes in the case and I noticed the power jack in the BOM is only rated for 12V. Don't I need one rated for over 48V such as this?

Most of the data sheets don't say how to wire up the component. That's fine for the jacks, but are there instructions somewhere for how to wire up a pot?

Edit: I found this post on wiring a pot. So I'll go with it.

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Three terminals for each section of the pot. The middle terminal is the wiper and is the output of the pot, that goes to the amp circuits. The input feeds to the one one the right side of the pot, when the shaft of the pot is facing you. The left terminal goes to ground. The second section of the pot is the same, only it gets used for the other channel. If that doesn't clear it up, let me know, as I know sometimes written explinations are tough to make sense of.


 
Jul 19, 2008 at 5:32 PM Post #689 of 7,277
Looking at the pictures, I can see how the power jack is wired, but in Pete's picture, it looks completely different than what I ordered. His has a square of brown material under the pins, mine doesn't. Also mine didn't come with nuts to hold them in. Do they usually come with nuts, or do you have to order them separately.

I went to Radio Shack and bought a power jack. However, no where is there an indication of how many volts it can handle.
 
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