Crack of Dawn

[w0lfd0g]

Big thumbs up to Bottlehead.  I am loving the experience of building and experimenting.

I recently purchased a pair of 100 uF Clarity Cap output capacitors and was struggling for room, and so I knocked together (with the help of a friend) a capacitor enclosure that I call "The Throne" on which I sit my "Crack of Dawn" build.  These capacitors measure 120 mm in length by 88 mm in diameter (approx 4 3/4 inches x 3 1/4 inches).  I will have room in the future to add those Mundorf caps I have been eying off by way of bypass. 

I was going to connect by way of cable tie mounts attached to the sides of the enclosure as pictured.  If anyone has any better ideas, please let me know. 

 

[w0lfd0g]

;D

 

[Paul Birkeland]

If anyone has any better ideas, please let me know.

Move the headphone jack to the throne and mount a couple of terminal strips down there.  You'll want to anchor both the leads of the capacitors and the bodies themselves.  I have had silicone stick really well to some caps (Auricaps) and not well to others (Solen).  If adhesives are no good, you can screw down cable tie mounts to the wood to keep everything secure.

-PB

 

[w0lfd0g]

^
Thanks Paul 

 

[earwaxxer]

I want those cap! - sorry I have a cap fetish. The bigger the better. I'm vertically challenged... You understand.

 

[adamct]

Eric,

Those are the same caps I put into my little red Quickie... 

Best,
Adam

 

[earwaxxer]

Fucking beautiful...! Mundorf needs to get some color!

 

[w0lfd0g]

Some more cap colour

 

[w0lfd0g]

Boring old Mundorf caps used as bypass

 

[w0lfd0g]

The completed "Crack of Dawn" in all its shabby glory