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In the Thread: “Melquiades” amplifier: a year later.
Post Subject: Just a boy and his soldering iron...Posted by jessie.dazzle on: 12/17/2006
Regarding the "complexity" of these amps :
Not being a DIY electronics guy, the Melquiades schematic makes me want to reach for a cigarette... However, naive fool that I am, having no formal training in electronics, I look at it and think to myself, I should be able to do this… I should be able to get all these parts, lay them out on the table in front of me, and link them up as illustrated by Romy's nice diagram. Well I plan on doing exactly that, and provided I don't overcook anything with the soldering iron, it should all... um, work !
I am still not to the point in the over all project where I can actually start construction of the amps (the house looks like a bomb went off, as I am currently up to my neck in horn construction), but looking over the diagram, and what there is of a parts list, the information is certainly adequate for the DIY-electronics crowd.
For the purposes of this project, I sort of wish I could count myself amongst them, but… Never mind… I can still interpret the schematic.
As a way of forcing myself to see the thing as a whole, I will start by converting this schematic to a 3D CAD model, illustrating each component and its relation to the others (with more distance between the parts than in photos of the completed amps) so that I can really see it, turn it all around in space, zoom in and tour the site like goldfish. The more experienced may laugh, but this exercise will help me get familiar with the composition… something like the act of writing. This is exactly the appraoch I use whenever I set out to rob a bank... its what they call "casing the joint".
Once I create the data, if I feel it really is a help, I will make it (or at least high res static images of it) available to anyone interested.
Back to the horns...
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