by EWBrown » Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:00 am
I've never had much faith in those power IC chimps, though I did start (stuffed the PC boards) but never completed a "gainclone" chimp-amp to experiment with. It's a very low priority project at this time, I was considering it mostly for some powered subs sometime.
I've got several 22-0-22 VAC power trannies, salvaged from some Simplex fire alarm control panels many years ago, they're good for +/- 24VDC to +/- 28VDC at quite a few amps. These mostly were manufactured by Merrimack Magnetics long ago....
For the chimp-amps I got a couple of hevty 22-0-22VAC toroids, around 160VA capacity.
I'll probably be in my "methusela" stage of life before I ever get these completed Yellow_Light_Colorz_PDT_09 Yellow_Light_Colorz_PDT_04 Yellow_Light_Colorz_PDT_03 Yellow_Light_Colorz_PDT_02
Around 15 years ago, I was given a 50W SS Peavey guitar amp that had been in a house fire, and it had suffered some amount of smoke and water damage. (After my friend got the insurance settlement, he gave away a lot of the damaged goods).
I managed to get it working, but never got around to fully "restoring" it, and have considered just gutting the darn thing and building up a 6BQ5 or 6GK6 "18 watt" tube amp to replace the smoked and watered plastic and sand bits. I figure the cab is worthmore than the guts at this point...
/ed B in NH
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