My latest creation, Vela-xlr. The cable is hand-braided from silver-teflon wire. All dielectrics (in addition to teflon) are cotton. Also the teflon wires are insulated from each other with cotton. Screening is added for emi protection. The white color seen through nylon screening is white...

Quote: Originally Posted by MASantos Looks nice! Why don't you solder the output wires directly to the legs of the output caps? This would remove a few solder spots from the circuit and maybe reduce inductance caused by the extra wire lenght. In my experience and knowledge, few...

Quote: Originally Posted by chesebert I think you missed my point: which is wave soldering creates an inherently weaker joint contact and the white glue is used to hold it in place for shipping. Had the soldering been done with good old manual labor, you wouldn't need white glue. (this...

Quote: Originally Posted by chesebert I am wandering whether the need to have those 'glue' was due to wave soldering (creates less sturdy joints). But I hardly see how you can wave solder a cap. I could be wrong though. The only reason I bring that up is because I have not seen that...

I really don't now how the PSU is hooked up in this situation, but it is possible (of course) to make an PSU with two batteries, without any dividing resistors. Of course when using one battery as in one sided supply, and you have created an dc offset to the input of amp circuit to create a...

Quote: Originally Posted by bellsprout but then if one battery drains faster than the other, there will be a dc offset I wonder how this could affect the dc offset... If the other battery drains faster you only get uneven supply voltage, other supply rail is lower voltage than...

I've been making cables for couple of years now, also for other people. This is my latest creation:

I think that originality isn't essential. I have what you consider original weller tips, and noname ones and they all last a lifetime. The noname tip you bought is similar to one that i use to solder smds and other stuff. It's all about your hand