[sachu]

Aye Larry.
 
Wish I could post pics of the amp here as this is one sweet looking amp if I may say so and am rather jealous of you now lol.
 
I wrote off the exstata after listening to the proto version with the ESP950 and O2.. but once i heard the final version it became clear to me what a big step up the addition of the output CCS made to the amp.
 
For now am loving the SR-003 with this amp, damn impressive for the baby stax.  
wish the colorado meet was after the portland meet so the guys in PDX could listen to it. 

 

[BoilermakerFan]

Whose 003s are they?
 

 

[sachu]

Larry's
 
Right now grooving to the Liquid Fire and the Liquid Gold here at 32 Ohm Audio. Ken's taken both his LCD-2s and Immitbiker has Kevin's LCD-2..so bummed, have to settle for some T1 something headphones

 

[BoilermakerFan]

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I also have two SS boards sets, matched quads of the J271s, and PS iron kits still available.  Posting here, then they'll posted in the FS forum next week. 
 

Both sets of SS boards and iron are sold. 

 

[ujamerstand]

Got the 6-pin sockets from allied electronics today. All I gotta say is wow, what crappy construction.
 
Anyways, for the bias wiring, what would be an appropriate AWG? One bias wire carries ~580V and the other ~230V, but neither have current load on them, is this correct? Does this mean that we don't have to care too much about the gauge of the wire except for its voltage rating?

 

[TimJo]

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Got the 6-pin sockets from allied electronics today. All I gotta say is wow, what crappy construction.
 
Anyways, for the bias wiring, what would be an appropriate AWG? One bias wire carries ~580V and the other ~230V, but neither have current load on them, is this correct? Does this mean that we don't have to care too much about the gauge of the wire except for its voltage rating?

That's my understanding. I used 22 ga rated for 600 volts, but you could probably use 24 ga as well.

 

[ujamerstand]

^^Excellent, thank you.

 

[spritzer]

You can use 30AWG or even smaller but the voltage rating is the main point here and that the wire isn't fragile enough to break. 

 

[pabbi1]

I usually use Mil 16878/5 in 22awg, but 600v rated is fine. I just use what I happen to have.
 
So, one build is finished out of 50 board sets? 

 

[ujamerstand]

Another one is on the way. Got my mouser package today.
 

 
Everything else should slowly arrive within the next 3 weeks or so... I'm going through the package right now to see if I missed anything. Unfortunately, the C6 I got was too wide. I didn't like the plastic xlr inputs I bought either. So another mouser run for me.

 

[sachu]

^^ That logo is wicked nice!!

 

[HeadphoneAddict]

Here are a couple of photos of my solid state eXStatA that Sachu cased up for me.  I should have it here in a couple of days.  It has a digital attenuator and teflon stax jacks from luvdunhill, and FPE 6mm front panel to allow mounting the jacks from behind.  Alex sold his spare stuffed SS boards to Blutarsky who passed them on to me, and Alex gave permission to use his logo in this DIY amplifier.
 

 

 

[krmathis]

Another one is on the way. Got my mouser package today.

Really clean looking logo. An official one, or something of your own design?

 

[ujamerstand]

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^^ That logo is wicked nice!!

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Really clean looking logo. An official one, or something of your own design?

Thanks guys, I designed that logo. But I must thank n_maher and his exstata build for the inspiration. That build kicks ass!

 

[ujamerstand]

Well... I've been looking for replacements for C6. I could not find a suitable 100nF 1000v film cap with 22.5mm lead spacing at mouser, and the one in stock at digikey is slightly too wide. Newark is out of stock for the cap value, and farnell lists them as expecting shipment but does not list the date. The only place that has possible replacement right now is an ebay seller in Hong kong (http://cgi.ebay.com/WIMA-MKP10-Polyproplyene-Capactor-0-1uF-1000V-

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Worst comes to worst I can always wire the one I've got (which is too long) off board I guess...