Sweet! Could you send some pix before you ship? I'd love to put them in the build thread to wet some appetites!!!
So I have started wiring the high voltage portion of the amp recently. My first step was to mount all of the related hardware: Power Transformer, Output Transformer (more on this later), cap can, switches, fuses, pilot light, and power outlet. Here's a pic of the Power tranny mounted in place:
I mounted the OT at the same time, although you can't see it in the pic. I have to note here that I purposely waited to mount the trannies until after I had wired in the board. I figured that this way would be easier, since I could position the chassis for soldering without the bulk of the trannies. I neglected to notice that on the combo chassis, the access holed for the OT are located UNDER the turred board!! Thankfully I had plenty of slack in my leads, and was able to unmount the board and squeeze the OT wires through with little difficulty. Perhaps next time I will follow the advice in the build guide and mount everything first!
Next up was making the connections from the PT to the rectifier socket:
This does NOT complete the rectifer wiring, as I have yet to wire in the switches, or the mains supply yet.
Here is a pic of the OT connections to the impedance switch and the power tubes. I have left the output jack out for the moment so you can see the switch more clearly:
After that I made the connections from the board to the cap can, wired the heater fillaments to the terminal strip, and wired all of the transformer grounds. This is what we're left with:
Next up is to wire up the switches, fuse, pilot light, and make the connections to the mains. I can almost smell the tubes burning!!!!