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In the Forum: Melquiades Amplifier
In the Thread: Planning my DSET
Post Subject: You would be most welcome...Posted by anthony on: 1/5/2019
...to call in if you ever did get to Aus.  There is plenty to see and experience here, and the weather is great just about all the time.  A critical ear applied to my efforts would be most welcome.

 Romy the Cat wrote:

I was also self-employed, running consulting s-corporation and taking 6 month off I once calculated how much money I lost turning down some lucrative contracts. It was a lot! Well, it was juts money… Saying that I need to admit that if I were married that time I do not think I would be able to pull it off. My compliments to you wife patience
 


Life is so much more than earning a living.  My slow month or two to start this year will be followed by a hectic ten, so I am not too concerned about lost income.  Doing something because you are passionate about it is so much more rewarding that grinding out the $$$ just because you want more.


 Romy the Cat wrote:

Now we are taking!!! Celibidache certainly would do it. A few years back I caught live performance of the 8th in London with Vienna and late Mazel. They did a very nice slow version of adagio, not as slow as Celibidache did during his slower concerts but still quite slow but Mazel did some absolutely mind boggling poses and some amassing prolonging phrases that went against all rules of physics. That all make the performance absolutely beyond believe. If you like very slow interpretation, like I do, then you might start to listen some Barbirolli Mahler…  


I was working away in my office with youtube in the background pumping out a version of Bruckner 8 that I cannot even remember (Barenboim/Berlin I think), then a Celibadache video of the same symphony came on and I thought it was the rapture.  Oh my!  I got straight on Discogs and bought the DVD set and I don't even have a DVD player, but I will get one (I should have got an Oppo 205 before they sold out).  I will certainly look up the Barbirolli Mahler...   


 Romy the Cat wrote:

It is not the numbers that I got. I had if I member correctly 330W draw after the amp hit the cruse temperature, the I initial inrush of current was I think about 10A and I use 8A slow blow fuse for the whole amp. The 4 minute startup protocol is kind of slow but it for sure protect the amp's parts well. 
 


Our builds are a little different.  Yours uses all toroids, or mostly so, which are more efficient than the EI that I use.  Your Services power supply (SMPS?) may be more efficient than my 5A linear power supply plus I have a whole extra power supply for the DHT channel that would incur extra losses because of the extra iron.

At the moment I have a fuse for the Service LPS, one for the filaments/heaters and one for the remainder.  3A works fine for all the power supplies (just tested it) but I was now thinking about removing the fuse for the filaments altogether.


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