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Wanted to share pics of the "Post Camp" product. Was a great success and fired right up (After some thorough testing with Chris!) on the first shot! Very stressful moments when testing and cranking up the Variax for the first time but everything worked out great. Amp Camp was an awesome experience and I cant wait to start the next build! Just have to figure out what I cant to do for a cab with this build.....I am thinking a 12" cab as I have an extra 12" speaker currently waiting for a home. I am really liking the looks of the stained cab's I was thinking about a dark black semi transparent stain. Thought that with a silver/grey mesh grill would look pretty awesome!

Side note, Would love to see any other finished products (or current progress) from Amp Camp!

Thanks guys!
-Dana


Trinity Tramp 1 by danamoose, on Flickr


Trinity Tramp 2 by danamoose, on Flickr

Very nice build. Neat as a pin! Very happy about your success and plans to do more - before the baby arrives!!

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Holy geometric wiring, Batman. Nice job!

That's how I like to see an amp wired! In my experience, clean builds like that are far more likely to fire up and work first time.

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Thats exactly what happened! After some good testing with Chris the amp fired up fine on the first try! Man that is a scary time when bringing the voltage up the first time after spending so much time working on it! We only had one issue with the "tude" switch acting up, the internal contacts were not making good contact at first so they just gave me a replacement switch to use....Got it home though and the issue seems to have corrected itself, havent had a single issue with it since! Love this amp, such a pure tone! Cant wait to get it mounted in a cab!

Thanks again Stephen and Chris!

Very nice build! You're gonna love that amp.

There's been a suggestion that you may have wired your speaker jacks up backwards - www.trinityamps.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2583 You may want to check it out....

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Dana,

Looking good man! I've gotta say that is some neat wiring there. It was a pleasure to meet you and hope that your dining out on Sunday was better than Saturday! Best of luck with the new baby...oh, and the birth of your 1st child in August too! haha!

Johnny

Looks great!

Doesn't matter that your speaker jacks are wired backwards. You will have no issues (including NFB, negative feedback).



Wiring your jacks backwards to the layout just means your speaker will be 180 degrees out of phase with your other (normally wired) speakers. Again not an issue, if your running multi amp setups you will want to fix your wiring so you don't have phase cancellation though.


Chris...

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Thanks guys, I think for the sake of keeping it clean and correct I will re-wire it. I'll just desolder it and flip the jacks over to correct it. That way I can keep it all clean and straight!
Thanks again everyone!

Ive got the itch now.....itchin to start another build!
-Dana

HA! Was using my amp to try to help troubleshoot someone else's issue when I discovered an oversight on my own! I havent yet explored what issues (if any...as my amp seems to work fine) but if you look very closely in my pics you will see that I havent jumpered the 6L6 side of the tube selector switch! Whoops! I will have to take a closer look at the schematic to see that section in particular but thought I'd share my findings so far. I find initially odd as I am currently running a 6L6 with no known issues.

I havent tested the switch but to my knowledge it is just a standard DPDT switch so there should be no internal connection there either. Just interesting stuff.

I am planning on fixing this before I fire it up again, but any ideas of any differences I may notice as a result of this error/correction?
Thanks guys,
-Dana

Jumping only means you're using one pole. not two so one is fine but two handles half the current each so easier on the switch. That's all.

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