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Quote: Originally Posted by soloz2 good to know, how about recabling headphones? I know actually soldering the wires to the speakers is kinda sensitive eh my opinion is if your in and out within a few seconds 1-4 i wouldnt worry to much

i use about 600F for soldering threw hole parts and about 700F for chassis connectors and cables

Quote: Originally Posted by Thaddy flutie04, getting back into headphone audio again? Good to see you around! hey man, long time no talk, your in texas now? and yeah kinda stumbled back into the scene after a almost 2 year break

This is my first full blown amp project, besides the normal cmoy stuff Millet with Nichon Muse KZ, and Silmic II output caps + Tread

hmcelectronics.com thats were my girlfriend bought mine for my bday

make sure your iron is turned up quite high those jacks are a pita to solder

got home today soldered the pot in, and all is well, biased down to 13v

Quote: Originally Posted by mb3k If it's not the pot, it's very likely the tube(s). From experience a faulty tube can lead to a full psu voltage on the test points with little to no effect from the trim pots. yeah i was worried someone would say that, arg hopefully its not the...

Hey, i just built one of the new group buy boards today and am having an odd problem. I have no volume pot installed, and just booted the thing up to test the bias and make sure all the readings were correct. Odd thing is that im getting the full psu voltage 23.4 at the bias test points on...

i wasnt talking about the actual tip that gets dirty, of course wet sponge.. but the part below the tip the non shiny metal part that the flux builds up on the are bewteen the red lines

Quote: Originally Posted by tangent If you mean the ring of black gunk just above the shiny part of the tip, I don't worry about that. It goes away when you change the tip. well then it serves no problem and it shall be no problem

Hey guys, i just recently got a hakko 936 station for my birthday. Ive been using it alot the past few days and have noticed one thing. In constantly wetting the tip when its not in use the tip has built up alot of burned flux, below the shiny metal part, its not doing anything bad but i was...

Quote: Originally Posted by jarthel I have used orcad 10.5 and simetrix intro. got orcad through work and of course simetrix has a free version. I like orcad more except that it seems to crash on my pc a lot. maybe it needs a reformat. another plus for orcad is that most spice library...

Quote: Originally Posted by cantsleep is it just white sleeving or it is some kind of light blue sleeving? looks very white to me