A rather early post in this thread (
post #71, in page 4) shows the first enclosure work I did for my Dynahi. Never thought it would take me more than two years and 85 more pages in this thread before I could submit pics of the new enclosure work.
My Dynahi remained stored in a storage unit for most of these past two years. Got it back this past summer, took it to a FL meet, sold the enclosure to Flecom on the spot, and brought my enclosureless Dynahi with me. Right now finally building the two separate enclosures, one for the power supplies and one for the main boards.
Given the total lack of any decent aluminum enclosures locally, I decided to use wood to build the enclosures, using aluminum tape and screening to cover the inside walls and make it a Faraday cage. (This aluminum lining not only looks like a duct-tape approach, it is some sort of a duct tape approach, but honestly I like it
) Here a few pics:
My dynahi main boards module, and the drilled base of the wooden enclosure:
Base covered with aluminum tape:
Holes cleared:
Aluminum screening applied:
Boards module on the base:
Inside of top lid covered in aluminum already:
Top lid and base ready:
And here is something else I decided to do. Had an idle heatsink, so decided to build a heatsink "extension", if I may call it that way.
Here's a copper sheet, the extra heatsink, and my original Dynahi boards module in the back:
Folded the copper sheet onto itself two times (so it's 4x as thick as the original sheet). Removed one of the original heatsinks from the boards module to attach this copper belt to it. The white stuff is heatsink compound:
And here's the heatsink extension finished and installed:
Here's the boards module installed and closed, with power, input signal, and headphone out wires ready:
[EDIT]Pics taken two months later, after finishing an improved heatsink extension:[/img]
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More pics soon when hopefully I'll have finished the two enclosures. They will be basically identical except for the controls. The final look will be very much like this with the top in black, and without the little wooden brick under the faceplate:
