Outstanding, the amp is super quiet, have had no problems whatsoever. Someone stated that I would hate the noise... I can't hear any, so I don't. I guess I don't have magic ears :)
Are you married to using those huge capacitors? Wouldn’t it be easier to put the filter section on the bottom with traditional axial caps or even some multicap cans? What is your line of thought on this?
The thought is the longevity of the amplifier. The electrolytic capacitors always do dry out over time and fail. These, in theory, won't ever fail, unless there's a manufacturing defect. It means the amp will run even longer without needing any maintenance other than replacing tubes. (in theory) They do cost a bit more, these were 10$ a piece or so, whereas most electrolytics that are say 50uF at about 350VDC are maybe 7 or so dollars, it's an increase in cost but to me seems worth it, if it works the way I want it to. Also, these specific caps support up to 600VDC instead of the 350 that the originals did and to get that, they'd often do two 100uF at 350 to get 50uF equivalent (in series). This way I just need the one 50uF at 600VDC and I'm good. All of them didn't need to be at 600VDC, so that's a little overkill, but I didn't take time to search for smaller sized ones for after the first node. Maybe that's going to cost me in space I guess?
@@FrenchieFilms keep us updated.I have hopes of doing this and look forward to seeing how you make out with this. I own a bassman 100. I would love to know how much you spend in total .
I would mount them all in a dog house underneath. Glue rhem to one another. It can hang as low.or.lower than the tubes and won't cramp up the chassis layout
Thanks for the vid. Those are interesting caps, do you perhaps have a link to them? Thx Peter
Sure do! I'll update the description as well, but they're by TDK/Epcos: www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/871-B32776Z5506K000
@@FrenchieFilms Many thanks
So, how did the film caps work out in the power section for you?
Outstanding, the amp is super quiet, have had no problems whatsoever. Someone stated that I would hate the noise... I can't hear any, so I don't. I guess I don't have magic ears :)
I’m glad to see that you are still doing the Bassman Dumble! This is the bassman 100 ?
It is based on a bassman 100 yes, I'm building it from scratch of course, but that's the base model the amp was modded from by HAD
Are you married to using those huge capacitors? Wouldn’t it be easier to put the filter section on the bottom with traditional axial caps or even some multicap cans? What is your line of thought on this?
The thought is the longevity of the amplifier. The electrolytic capacitors always do dry out over time and fail. These, in theory, won't ever fail, unless there's a manufacturing defect. It means the amp will run even longer without needing any maintenance other than replacing tubes. (in theory) They do cost a bit more, these were 10$ a piece or so, whereas most electrolytics that are say 50uF at about 350VDC are maybe 7 or so dollars, it's an increase in cost but to me seems worth it, if it works the way I want it to. Also, these specific caps support up to 600VDC instead of the 350 that the originals did and to get that, they'd often do two 100uF at 350 to get 50uF equivalent (in series). This way I just need the one 50uF at 600VDC and I'm good. All of them didn't need to be at 600VDC, so that's a little overkill, but I didn't take time to search for smaller sized ones for after the first node. Maybe that's going to cost me in space I guess?
@@FrenchieFilms keep us updated.I have hopes of doing this and look forward to seeing how you make out with this. I own a bassman 100. I would love to know how much you spend in total .
I would mount them all in a dog house underneath. Glue rhem to one another. It can hang as low.or.lower than the tubes and won't cramp up the chassis layout