My little project is almost finished.

[HTH AMPS]

looking good dude   8)

[gwEm]

tasty!

[Dmoney]

OCD levels of wiring in my guitar too.

hopefully I'll get the amp running tomorrow. fingers crossed! hope it sounds half decent off the bat without being mad noisy and such.

[Dmoney]

Got the amp fired up. I had some issues at the start.
The primary wires for the Output Transformer had been put in place the wrong way around. So I had to swap them over. Then I found I had some hum issues but I think I've tracked that down to a bad Master Volume pot. I used Bourns pots in this and the solder tags seem a bit fragile. So I need a 1Mlog Bourns pot to replace it. If I bash the wiper tag on the MV then it stops humming when at zero. However, it seems that reheating the ground lug on the MV stopped the Middle control from causing hum if the middle was up while the MV was at zero. weird.

Other than that.... it's LOUD and sounds pretty epic! I can see why people rate VHT's now.

All i need is a shell (that looks better than the original laney one)

[With Full Distortion]

that looks like a top class job man
will yuo post some soundclips?
the wiring look as tight as a ratts ass.
q: )
and tidy also. but not like our Rat
ahahahaahahah
Congratulations.
JP

[Dmoney]

thanks a lot, man.

Hopefully i'll get some clips soon. I need to cure a weird hum in it first though. It's look a little different now, but still neat. I haven't managed to completely mess it up with my tinkering yet.

[HTH AMPS]

thanks a lot, man.

Hopefully i'll get some clips soon. I need to cure a weird hum in it first though. It's look a little different now, but still neat. I haven't managed to completely mess it up with my tinkering yet.

I see you're using a filtered IEC inlet - I had problems with one recently and tore the fecking amp apart before considering that the hum had started when I'd changed the IEC inlet, but never thought it would be the problem.  I just use standard IEC sockets now.

[Dmoney]

thanks a lot, man.

Hopefully i'll get some clips soon. I need to cure a weird hum in it first though. It's look a little different now, but still neat. I haven't managed to completely mess it up with my tinkering yet.

I see you're using a filtered IEC inlet - I had problems with one recently and tore the fecking amp apart before considering that the hum had started when I'd changed the IEC inlet, but never thought it would be the problem.  I just use standard IEC sockets now.

cheers! i just emailed you actually. I'll give that a go

[Dmoney]

swapped it for a normal IEC.
No difference.

[Dmoney]

think I've got it!

lack of one shielded wire on the 3rd stage grid.
Hopefully, tomorrow, I might even get to gig with it.

[JacksonRR]

Looks sweet man. So it's a Deliverance with a ???PI and a KT77 power section. Sounds good on paper. What are you thinking of the sound and feel so far? What did you do for the power supply? Are the DC heaters regulated? I haven't found any info on Fryette power supplies is why I'm asking.

[Dmoney]

It has an Soldano Avenger style power supply. More filtering in the 1st and 2nd stages. The DC heaters in this are not regulated, but are from different 2A 6.3V wind on the PT. If I built it with the switching capability it would have been cool to use 12v regulated supply for relays and some filament heat. The Elevated AC Heaters are on a higher power 6.3V wind. I elevated them to prolong the life of the cathode follower.

It's not exactly the same as a Deliverance stuck in the 'more' mode. I have changed a couple of thing by way of experimentation and I'll probably tinker with more bit. I know I want to change the pots. you know how it is right?

It has a cathodyne PI rather than a LTP, and a quad of KT77's. The D120 has buffers between the PI and power valve grids for the 4x KT88's. The D60 doesn't, but it only has 2x KT88's. I scr@pped that idea and went with nothing between the PI and octal grids. Also, the KT77's are going into a repro SLO OT. So there will be a bit of a mismatch. it does however sound LOUD!

[Kiichi]

Oh my, that looks very sexy. So neat.
Also I always kinda love the way open amps often look, this one too.

Really wanne hear clips of this thing.

[Dmoney]

I'm calling this pretty much finished, apart from future tweaking... haha.



more or less the final gut shot...
The main difference being more shielded grid wires in the preamp, the ground bus in the preamp being divided up and each preamp filter run to a new star near the main filters.

[Johnny Mac]

That looks amazing.  8) Its so neat and tidy. I wouldn't have a clue how to make an amp. Does it sound nice?