Introducing myself !

[timuhai1]

Hello everyone, my name is Tim and I am new here. I graduated in 2020 with a 2 year electrical engineering technology degree, and am now and industrial electrical maintenance technician. I learned all kinds of things in school from motor control circuits to semiconductors, but not much with vacuum tubes. I was however encouraged to explore vacuum tubes by my professors, as I am a guitar player and was very interested.

I first built this tweed champ clone for a final project in a class of mine, which you can see here.





After I built this, I was just excited to build and learn even more. So the next thing I built was this single ended plexi from gapcb.





When I had ordered the single ended plexi PCB, I also ordered the superlite II pcb, which you can see here...



But I have held off on starting this one, because I was a bit intimidated. There are no "instructions" like the single ended amp, and even though I have learned so much building these two amps (as well as repairing some others for friends and such) , I still have a lot to learn.

So that brings me to making an account here! I have read many posts from this community over the past couple months, but decided to finally make an account, as I feel ready to finally start my superlite pcb project. Once I receive some of the parts in the mail, I will start a new topic in the 18 watt area to document my project, and hopefully learn some new things in the process.

[Daviedawg]

Welcome Tim. What you have done so far and now propose is great. You will get help and advice here. Good luck with your project.

Dd

[Graydon]

Good job Tim and welcome to 18Watt.com.

[timuhai1]

Sorry for the late reply here, been pretty busy at work lately.

I have come a decent way on the build, and have plenty of pictures, so I will post an update soon.

Last thing I need to order is the output transformer, which I am most likely going to get from mojotone , unless anyone has a better recommendation?

[Bieworm]

I've been using Hammond 1750PA OT 's for every 18W build. I can't comment on other brands though, but the Hammond is pretty good imho

[JMPGuitars]

Sorry for the late reply here, been pretty busy at work lately.

I have come a decent way on the build, and have plenty of pictures, so I will post an update soon.

Last thing I need to order is the output transformer, which I am most likely going to get from mojotone , unless anyone has a better recommendation?

I prefer the transformers from GDSamps.com. That site is owned by Graydon, who started this website. His version of Heyboer transformers are my favorite, especially because I prefer the solder tabs on the PT.

I think Mojo does have a version of a Heyboer set, but I would get OTs or PTs from GDS or Trinity before considering Mojo for that.

Thanks,
Josh