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Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Oct 28 2007, 12:38 AM

Dear all,

Kris has very kindly allowed me to move my Amp Building Journey to the official http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/blog/.

Those of you that are interested can continue to follow my adventures http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/blog/?cat=6!

Regards,

Andrew

Posted by: mattacuk Oct 28 2007, 12:52 AM

That is fantastic Andrew. I am very interested in the inner workings of Tube amps so this is great!

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Oct 28 2007, 12:55 AM

This is great!

For those of you who think the blog looks a little messy - you can click a category in the right side menu if you only want to see Andrew's articles, for example.

The blog features will be improved as we get along.

Posted by: MickeM Oct 28 2007, 01:25 AM

Perfect!!! So easy to follow now.

Posted by: muris Oct 28 2007, 04:57 AM

Just checked blog Andrew,you have done awesome job so far!!
May I book one 80watts head already??

Keep it up,can't wait to see and hear final product!!

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Oct 28 2007, 06:12 AM

Thanks Guys!

I just posted the latest installment ...

Posted by: Freebird Oct 28 2007, 11:28 PM

I feel so ignorant here.... I love electronics like these, I'd love to have the knoledge to actually build something!
But... where are the tubes on that board? Are they separated and put onto another board? Thanks.

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Oct 28 2007, 11:35 PM

QUOTE (Freebird @ Oct 28 2007, 06:28 PM)

I feel so ignorant here.... I love electronics like these, I'd love to have the knoledge to actually build something!
But... where are the tubes on that board? Are they separated and put onto another board?

Thanks.

The tubes are generally mounted on the chassis in sockets away from the circuit board (its hard to mount and wire the sockets on a turret board, although some Printed Circuit Board designs do this.)

On my amp, the tubes go on top, if you check out some of the much earlier posts you will see the chassis shown the other way up and you can see the tubes and transformers.

Posted by: MickeM Oct 28 2007, 11:41 PM

How do I normaly get to the blog? Except from looking the first post of this thread up and clicking the long, which would not be "normal" anyway.

Posted by: Freebird Oct 28 2007, 11:51 PM

QUOTE (Andrew Cockburn @ Oct 28 2007, 11:35 PM)

The tubes are generally mounted on the chassis in sockets away from the circuit board (its hard to mount and wire the sockets on a turret board, although some Printed Circuit Board designs do this.)

On my amp, the tubes go on top, if you check out some of the much earlier posts you will see the chassis shown the other way up and you can see the tubes and transformers.

Ok i get it now!

Anyway I thought it were more convenient to mount them separately like you did, so that if one of them blows, you can easily replace it.

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Oct 29 2007, 12:19 AM

QUOTE (MickeM @ Oct 28 2007, 06:41 PM)

How do I normaly get to the blog? Except from looking the first post of this thread up and clicking the long, which would not be "normal" anyway.

I think Kris will be adding a more prominent link to the main page soon ...

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Oct 29 2007, 01:40 AM

QUOTE (Andrew Cockburn @ Oct 29 2007, 12:19 AM)