I have been working on the new SET chassis design but that’s not all I’ve been doing. This morning I got a little surprise when I checked on my sump pump under the house. It’s starting the rainy season here and I wanted to make sure everything was ready to go. Unfortunately, I found myself replacing a GFCI outlet and the sump pump that had failed and taken the outlet with it. Since the morning was shot, I decided to finish up a couple of other little projects this afternoon. Last week I mentioned another project, the portable class D amp. We’ll, I took a little time this afternoon to finish off that one.
I got the box painted earlier this week and the paint had finally set up. So I took some time to wire up the various connections and finish the project. Here’s how it looks.
The front…
The back…
And, of course, the internals…
These little amplifier modules still amaze me. This is a self contained, class D, 15W per channel amplifier, in a complete package for less than $30 USD. When I think back to all the machinations I went through 40 years ago to get a self contained amplifier like this, I just shake my head. I know that on the website here I spend almost all my time on vacuum tubes, but modern technology and manufacturing is really quite amazing.
Now that that’s done, there is nothing that should distract me from my tube projects. Time to get back to that SET chassis design.