In case anyone is interested, I've just put these up.

They show the insides of the amp.

http://www.fleetie.demon.co.uk/yaqin.html

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Thanks.


Martin

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Is that the amp's ventilated case it's sitting on? ;-)

Very pretty.

Roy.

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Very nice, especially for the price. I like the way they bothered to put the
component value prints on the pcb (for manual board stuffing?) and they
bothered to sleeve the wire of the two yellow caps but I wonder why they
floating so high ;-) maybe if its not wave soldered then it could be some
assembly workers overheated short leads with manual soldering :-) (there is
always a reason why) The pcb appears good grade as well. What sort of info
comes with the amp?

In article , Mike Gilmour
writes

"Fleetie" wrote in message
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Very nice, especially for the price. I like the way they bothered to put the
component value prints on the pcb (for manual board stuffing?) and they
bothered to sleeve the wire of the two yellow caps but I wonder why they
floating so high ;-) maybe if its not wave soldered then it could be some
assembly workers overheated short leads with manual soldering :-) (there is
always a reason why) The pcb appears good grade as well. What sort of info
comes with the amp?



That looks like a stereo jobbie in which case what one is the mains
trannie and the O/P as one would expect two the same, unless their
contained in the large can at the back?....
--
Tony Sayer

"tony sayer" wrote
In article , Mike Gilmour
writes

"Fleetie" wrote in message
...
In case anyone is interested, I've just put these up.

They show the insides of the amp.

http://www.fleetie.demon.co.uk/yaqin.html

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Very nice, especially for the price. I like the way they bothered to put the
component value prints on the pcb (for manual board stuffing?) and they
bothered to sleeve the wire of the two yellow caps but I wonder why they
floating so high ;-) maybe if its not wave soldered then it could be some
assembly workers overheated short leads with manual soldering :-) (there is
always a reason why) The pcb appears good grade as well. What sort of info
comes with the amp?

That looks like a stereo jobbie in which case what one is the mains
trannie and the O/P as one would expect two the same, unless their
contained in the large can at the back?....

It is stereo. The Huge toroidal in the middle is the mains xformer.
There are (obviously, duhhh) 2 o/p xformers. One I left covered by the
can, and the other I "uncanned" and you can see in the photos. It's
not toroidal. They both sit near the back.

As for the heat shrink on the yellow caps, the reason it doesn't reach down
to the PCB is that I lifted it up. I was trying to check whether there was
continuity between those leads and some other points in the circuit. They
were originally right down to the PCB.


Martin
--
M.A.Poyser Tel.: 07967 110890
Manchester, U.K. http://www.fleetie.demon.co.uk

In article , Fleetie
writes
"tony sayer" wrote
In article , Mike Gilmour
writes

"Fleetie" wrote in message
...
In case anyone is interested, I've just put these up.

They show the insides of the amp.

http://www.fleetie.demon.co.uk/yaqin.html

Please don't visit more than once or twice each; I don't want my
bandwidth allocation eaten up.

Very nice, especially for the price. I like the way they bothered to put the
component value prints on the pcb (for manual board stuffing?) and they
bothered to sleeve the wire of the two yellow caps but I wonder why they
floating so high ;-) maybe if its not wave soldered then it could be some
assembly workers overheated short leads with manual soldering :-) (there is
always a reason why) The pcb appears good grade as well. What sort of info
comes with the amp?

That looks like a stereo jobbie in which case what one is the mains
trannie and the O/P as one would expect two the same, unless their
contained in the large can at the back?....

It is stereo. The Huge toroidal in the middle is the mains xformer.
There are (obviously, duhhh) 2 o/p xformers. One I left covered by the
can, and the other I "uncanned" and you can see in the photos. It's
not toroidal. They both sit near the back.

As for the heat shrink on the yellow caps, the reason it doesn't reach down
to the PCB is that I lifted it up. I was trying to check whether there was
continuity between those leads and some other points in the circuit. They
were originally right down to the PCB.


Martin

Thanks Mr Martin "toucans"......
--
Tony Sayer

Thanks Mr Martin "toucans"......

Two cans? ?

It's too damn hot sorry that went over my head i think.

off to the garden with a bottle of nice cold white wine.

I should be soldering my new resistors into it, but it's too
hot to use a valve amp now anyway! it will wait!


Martin

"Fleetie" wrote in message
...
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Very nice Martin - I can see why you are enjoying it, even if I can't hear
it. Keep in mind those 6N5Ps have a rep for a tendancy to oscillation - see:

http://www.klausmobile.narod.ru/testerfiles/6n5p.htm

(I bet it's a hot little bugger in this weather though! ;-)


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OK, I'll try and restrain myself.....

;-)

I am thinking of having one of these impotred off e-bay would you recommend
it? Is this model a push pull amp or class a?
Cheers
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"StaffBull" wrote
I am thinking of having one of these impotred off e-bay would you recommend
it? Is this model a push pull amp or class a?
Cheers

I would recommend it as being a **** of a lot of amp for the money,
but only IF you are a little au fait with electronics. I had a set
of cathode resistors blow up. I soldered in the new ones properly
this evening and it's fine again now. Not rocket science if I can
manage it without help.

Actually that seller has abandoned selling the MC-10K and now prefers
to sell the MC-10L, which uses EL34 valves.

I think both are probably great value for money if you want a damn
good value-for-money entry-level valve amp.

The seller ("Hi-Ends") I bought from, has been very supportive, and
co-operative, even when I told him the 3 cathode resistors associated
with one of the output valves had blown up. Today I received TWO
replacement output valves and a bunch of resistors (3) to replace
the broken ones.


Martin
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M.A.Poyser Tel.: 07967 110890
Manchester, U.K. http://www.fleetie.demon.co.uk