[kuroguy]

My point exactly. the machining doesn't look too difficult. the form is what has me hooked. This is art in the true sense of the word. I am humbled by your artistic vision and skill.

 

[zkool448]

Thanks again gentlemen, appreciate all the kind words

(*blushes some more*)

 

[mbd2884]

Thanks to all who posted here. Incredible work from everyone! Been back tracking through this thread, only at page 315.

 

[anthonyhong]

This has absolutely nothing to do with audio, but its a build, and according to OP on page one, anything goes

. This is more practical use, it gets moved around and all, and its not very pretty but its my first real build project. Hopefully I'll learn a thing or two about working materials to make some pretty enclosures before I build some audio equip

.

Its an ATX power supply load tester. A number of huge power resistors are mounted on the back of those heatsiks, switches turn them on and off, those sexy gold binding posts (unneccesary, but they are pretty sexy

) are for measuring Vs. Nests of wires hanging out is to attach to power supply being tested and the one mounted in the chasis (or frame) is for powering the cooling on the rig.

 

[Twiek]

Anthony, Looks good (and functional)

What's the maximum load it can produce?

 

[anthonyhong]

The unit itself there, 1kW, I have another 500kW in attachments (ran out of space with that setup), but the again, I have never had to use 1.5kW yet

.

 

[Juaquin]

Some high-end PSU's run over 1KW (think Quad graphics cards). I run an 850W and probably only draw 300-350 under load - but it's always good to give yourself a lot of room, especially with capacitor aging and future components drawing more and more power.

 

[amc]

My first CMOY following tangent's excellent articles. Now working on one that uses a TLE railsplitter, and adds DC wall power. if that works out on the radioshack board I will try my hand at etching my own boards - 1 for an altoids tin and one for an extra small "Meko" mint tin. This is more fun than I imagined - a big thanks for all the great info to all.

 

[anthonyhong]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Juaquin /img/forum/go_quote.gif Some high-end PSU's run over 1KW (think Quad graphics cards). I run an 850W and probably only draw 300-350 under load - but it's always good to give yourself a lot of room, especially with capacitor aging and future components drawing more and more power.

Oh for sure, I test power supplies thats why I built it

. The vast majority of the units I deal with are 1kw units. What I was saying is I haven't needed to use the extra 500W.

 

[chews89]

Quote:

Originally Posted by amc /img/forum/go_quote.gif My first CMOY following tangent's excellent articles. Now working on one that uses a TLE railsplitter, and adds DC wall power. if that works out on the radioshack board I will try my hand at etching my own boards - 1 for an altoids tin and one for an extra small "Meko" mint tin. This is more fun than I imagined - a big thanks for all the great info to all. http://i638.photobucket.com/albums/u...o/DSC_6937.jpg http://i638.photobucket.com/albums/u...o/DSC_6936.jpg http://i638.photobucket.com/albums/u...o/DSC_6945.jpg

Congrats on your first build, AMC. Those are some really nice pictures

Especially the last one.

 

[Juaquin]

Quote:

Originally Posted by anthonyhong /img/forum/go_quote.gif Oh for sure, I test power supplies thats why I built it . The vast majority of the units I deal with are 1kw units. What I was saying is I haven't needed to use the extra 500W.

Ah, no quad-SLI double-quad-core machines around who's power supplies need testing?

A man can dream.

 

[naamanf]

Buffalo32

 

[naamanf]

I suck. Double post.

 

[linuxworks]

I can't really call this DAC a 'build' - I just hooked up some power transformers to it and off it goes:

(I did build the minimax - a few months ago).

the dac is a new toy from ebay in the $100 range. does 24bit and 192k via upsampling daughter card (vertical plugin). the dac chip is on a socket adapter as well as the receiver chip. it supports toslink, coax and usb (via a BB pcm chip onboard).

sort of a (noodle_dac)++

sort of

 

[prinz]

nice bulid of minimax!