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Grounding Balanced Dynalo (Dynamid)

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I've started work on building a Dynamid this month and I've now ordered two Dynalo PCBs from AMB which are on their way at the moment. I'll be driving this from a DAC1 so my inputs are fully balanced and I've had my 650s recabled for balanced drive so everything should be alright on the outside of the amp.

 

My question concerns the grounding of the PCBs at the points I've highlighted here. I'll be driving this from a Sigma22 which is in a separate enclosure from the Dynalo boards.

 

Red Point

This should connect directly back to ground on the Sigma22, is that correct?

 

Pink Points & Blue Points

I have no idea where these should ground to. Surely not the chassis since that won't be grounded as the PSU is seperate. Do I need to connect them at all? If so then are there already PCB traces going back to ground on J5 (red) or will I need to wire these to it?

 

Edit: Having read some more I suspect that both the output and input terminals' ground should connect to ground on the XLR inputs, can someone confirm that?

 

These are probably rookie questions so thanks for your patience. I'm more of a solder monkey than an EE, it's been several years since I took any electronics theory.

 

Dynalo Grounds


Edited by Bizzel - 9/9/10 at 10:52am
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All grounds - power, input and output - on the dynalo board are already tied together on the board, there is no isolation provided.

You can ground any incoming ground at any point on the board, but it makes sense to use the pad provided for the input marked. The only thing I'd worry about is running a ground wire to the pot if it isn't already grounded by continuous path in the case, I'd probably look at the B22 wiring options on AMB's site and follow them.

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