[SripBoard Design] Starving Student Millett Hybrid Vacum Tube Amp

Try and figure out a layout for yourself using the schematic, it's not very difficult for a simple amp like that. Keep in mind you may still need a little bit of extra wiring, but you can hide it away on the underside of the board.

Once you got that down, you can build all sorts of wonderful things, as the skills you learn will come in handy.

im building one right now on radioshack prototype board because i find it easier than p2p, its not too hard to come up with a layout

in that picture it seems like you have rails, each row is connected. make one rail positive and one ground. that way you can put components you know are grounded right on that rail.

without a custom made board your going to have a fair amount of jumpers.

just go for it! if it doesnt work, check your work, and if you dont see anything sticking out at you, desolder everything and try wiring it up again, but differently. sometimes the best way to learn is to jump right in and give it a go. it doesnt have to be pretty, and one layout isnt necessarily better than another. 

The fact that some people cant point to point cleanly (points at self) doesn't mean *you* cant. Even if your work looks like garbage, like mine, there is mega-whoa-alot of pride to take in building something yourself from a schematic.

You might save 3 wires by building the amp with the aid of stripboard. When you start counting connections on the stripboard, you certainly have more wire - particularly if you lay the amp out so that most connections can be made with the components themselves. 

For example, here is my take on the starving student, using the tubes from the original millet hybrid:

Its got 3 knobs because thats 3 times as good as 1. Seriously, its an older version of the akido stepper. 

Innerbits:

I may have managed to get MORE wire into this amp then most people get into the starving student. I got skills. 

Maybe its just me, but I find building stuff on perf-board more time consuming and tedious than really old school point to point with nothing but tube sockets and tag strips. 

The Kaidan is more complex than the Starving Student by a few components, and separate AC and DC feedback loops.

as a side note, where/what kind of heat sinks are you using for the mosfets?

 This is funny, the original picture is from my Photography blog, which is in written in Portuguese (Brazil). ;)

 I can't help you but if you could read the text, I'm pretty sure you would think twice about building a headphone amp that uses 19J6 tubes, as it is/was hard to find those tubes. For the price I see people listing those amps here, unless it is for the experience of building something, there is no point getting in this trouble.

Me?

I used a little screw-on heat-sink on the back panel. You can kind of see it screwed to the back panel right in the middle. 

My design runs the mosfets at significantly lower power dissipation than the original starving student so I can get away with a smalllllll sink. For real Starving Stdents the theme seems to be "more heatsink, more better". If I were building another one of these, I would use a larger heatsink (or 2 of these - I used only 1) but this one was adequate for me. 

aaahh i see it now