Richard's PL Beastie Rework

Quick update for you folkses...

Got these in today.. compare with the ones pulled...

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Ready for the transplant. Figured I'd leave these where they are at until I get the stuff from Lee (Looks to be ETA'd Friday). This weekend, work begins in earnest!

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jbeckva said:
Quick update for you folkses...

Got these in today.. compare with the ones pulled...

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Ready for the transplant. Figured I'd leave these where they are at until I get the stuff from Lee (Looks to be ETA'd Friday). This weekend, work begins in earnest!

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A four poster, that is very early Jer.
 
Work in progress

Whole lotta wiring ahead. Richard will need the fans, so the left-side fuse and AC relocation is "out". Need to think a little more on the best way, since we'll need the outlet and have the outlet under control of the power switch.

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Nav, here's that bolt that was in the middle of the xformer plate. Brutal, heheh

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jbeckva said:
Nav, here's that bolt that was in the middle of the xformer plate. Brutal, heheh

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I guess I can stop worrying now. Lee may have had this one pegged from the beginning as a means to support the transformer in a rack configuration. What size is the hole? A butt plug may fix that.
 
NavLinear said:
I guess I can stop worrying now. Lee may have had this one pegged from the beginning as a means to support the transformer in a rack configuration. What size is the hole? A butt plug may fix that.
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Pretty big. I banged it out and sealed it up from the inside, Wish I had a spare SN label.. that would make it invisible.
 
And continued to downgrade their signature product...
 
Gepetto said:
Yes, they started with 4, went to a tripod later and eventually settled on only 2.
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I was thinking of taking advantage of that. Leave the top 2 "in", and use those like telephone poles - suspending the AC related runs from the tops. Might have been a good idea, dunno... Ended up with this here. All AC is being routed across the top. If along the bottom, my thinking was that it's crossing all of those control wires from the outputs to the driver board.

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laatsch55 said:
Why is that Joe??
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Chasing the almighty profit dollar Lee. Very few companies continue to invest in making their product higher quality and better, the focus is always on more features and cheaper. I saw a focus on quality at Apple when Jobs was still alive, now you start seeing Apple buckling to the pressure that Samsung is putting on them.

A lot of that behavior also stems from the disposable society we have all become. Built to last is no longer a requirement or a desire.
 
jbeckva said:
I was thinking of taking advantage of that. Leave the top 2 "in", and use those like telephone poles - suspending the AC related runs from the tops. Might have been a good idea, dunno... Ended up with this here. All AC is being routed across the top. If along the bottom, my thinking was that it's crossing all of those control wires from the outputs to the driver board.
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You have the AC routed correctly Jer. Keep it away from the input jacks when you get around to wiring them in. The best way to wire the outputs is go direct like this.

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