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Post by PinkFloyd on Oct 15, 2011 20:48:02 GMT
Just an update to let you know that all the Little Pinkies in the standard ABS enclosures now include custom made toroidal transformers.... They will be renamed to "Little Pinkie SE" and the price will remain the same. Whether they be 12V AC / 12V DC (or any other voltages on request) they will all come with the toridal transformer. Fuse protection as standard (user replaceable fuse). MOV / Class X2 across the line, evolution OFC pro output cable, Blue illuminated oval on / off switch, twin ferrite beads on all output wires, toroidal bolted and filled with resin..... they really are nice   The "Special Edition" is much the same apart from coming in an aluminium enclosure.... the only other differences being Rhodium plated IEC socket and class X and Y suppression caps at the input. Pinkie SE:   Pinkie Special Edition:  By the way.... the pics don't do them any justice at all and they are not that "Little" as Frans said |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2011 21:27:16 GMT
Mike
You really need to keep this in an area (if there is such a place) where the members can see them, but trawling Googlebots can't.
Sooner or later SumWun will start cloning them and making easy bucks from your hard work.Their efforts will of course result in a 2nd rate version though, due to crap components used instead of the highest quality bits in yours.
Alex
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2011 21:40:35 GMT
It's really weird, but the metal Little Pinkie is one of my favourite bits of kit. It's so solid and delivers big time. t wakes the V8 up nicely.
Ian
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Post by mrarroyo on Oct 16, 2011 12:00:15 GMT
Nicely done, and Alex has a good point with copies of your hard work.
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Post by PinkFloyd on Oct 17, 2011 22:45:39 GMT
Mike You really need to keep this in an area (if there is such a place) where the members can see them, but trawling Googlebots can't. Sooner or later SumWun will start cloning them and making easy bucks from your hard work.Their efforts will of course result in a 2nd rate version though, due to crap components used instead of the highest quality bits in yours. Alex Alex, I have been posting photos of these (in one guise or another) for years now and I would find it quite flattering if Sumwun wanted to copy them.... they don't shift like hotcakes so SumWun may find the effort to be pretty fruitless (if SumWun was thinking they could shift crate loads of them).... I like showing them as I am proud of my workmanship.... It's a simple power supply, good quality parts and built 100% by hand with the greatest attention to detail... each one is pretty unique inside and no two are identical (with regards to cable routing)... I like to make them all slightly differently just to make each one an individual... For example.... here are two identical Pinkies (apart from one being fitted with an illuminated switch and the other with a standard on / off non illuminated switch) but they both have a different character:  If you look closely I have secured the cables differently... both do exactly the same job but both have their own different personalities. As it happens, I have decided to do the cable tie clamped under the toroidal securing washer / nut to all of them now.... It seems sensible: Clamp it   Then flood in some hot melt glue  Nice and secure  I also go a bit OTT with the 1.3mm DC plugs... Solder them  A nice infill of hot melt  Some heatshrink sleeving (when you heat it the glue also melts and fills the "gap" nicely)  On with the plug body  Heatshrink sleeving over the body  Apply heat from heat gun and, voila!... one pretty solidly connected DC plug  All time consuming but worth the effort IMO |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2011 23:00:46 GMT
Mike Nice ! I really should do the hotmelt bit too, as especially with RCA plugs, they can cause some nasty intermittent faults with cables that are moved around a lot. Even with commercial cables.  Alex |
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Post by PinkFloyd on Oct 17, 2011 23:38:50 GMT
Mike Nice ! I really should do the hotmelt bit too, as especially with RCA plugs, they can cause some nasty intermittent faults with cables that are moved around a lot. Even with commercial cables. Alex It works wonders Alex..... make the blob slightly "bigger" than the gap you are filling.... when you apply the heatshrink tubing and heat it up the hot melt glue melts into all the right places ensuring a bullet proof plug with zero movement |
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