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College teaches you shit in that sense. My business partner has three degrees including MSEE, and I can say (with him outside the room) I probably know more about most things electronic than he does, and am a far better troubleshooter. Like you say, it’s all about getting your hands dirty – and I don’t mean from ink or pencil lead.
From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of gino wong
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 9:24 AM
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Driving myself nuts with electronics stuff
An EE degree got me to the point where I could recognize things and where to look for solutions, if I could figure out the problem, but I could not hold a candle to my associate techs who went to non college tech school in Germany where they taught him how to make capacitors or the guy built radios from Heathkits with his father and scratchtbuilt their headphones from toilet rolls.
I could do nothing of practical use until I just dove in. It’s like Physics or music. Little simple chunks that string together.
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:46 AM, John Hammaren <hammaren@geoconcepts.com> wrote:
Tryhttp://diyaudioprojects.com/Tubes/tubes.htm
From:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Sean
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 3:35 AM
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Driving myself nuts with electronics stuff
I'm not sure if I'm venting or asking for help or what here.
It started innocently enough. I was going to build a FrankenLeslie. Took an oem Leslie 10 unit out of a dead and worthless Hammond J series spinet. (One of those horrible cheesy Hammond transistor bastards.) I'm going to build it a proper Leslie-like cabinet. I'm going to plug my A-100 into it.
All I need to do is build a simple and elegant power supply and amplifier to drive the single 8" 8ohm speaker.
I've been trying to read up on amplifiers and my head is just spinning. (Like the rotor should be!) I've spent many hours today on Elliot Sound Product's backend of of articles and projects. I got horribly confused in the first section of "The Beginnner's Guide to Amplifiers."
Thinking I should have majored in electronics engineering instead. I had no idea a simple amplifier could be so horrendously complicated. It, apparently, IS rocket science.
</RANT>
I guess the appropriate thing to ask is: Where should I be reading up or copying from or whatever to build a simple, elegant, amplifier that can take the balanced signal that comes out of a Hammond?
Thanks.
Off to take 18 more gelcaps of ibuprofen.
-Sean
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Gino Wong Birgelo
BSComm, BSEE, CG, ReRED, CSEC