Safety

So yesterday I posted that the top plate was complete. Today I can say that the new spud amplifier is totally complete and ready for testing.

One of the risks of becoming too familiar with vacuum tube electronics is that it’s easy to become a little careless when working around high voltages. And because of this learned carelessness, sometimes we don’t take as many precautions as we should. Especially when prototyping.

I often get questions about how I design and construct my projects. One of the things I realized this morning, after receiving such a question, was that I really haven’t addressed my basic metal work and how I size all the aluminum parts I use for my chassis. So I thought I’d give a little insight into how I make these cuts and how I got to where I am today.

Ever since I completed the Optimization of the 6V6 SE-UL I have been saying that I was going to do the SE-UL optimization process for more tubes. So yesterday I finally started to make plans.