gtluke
The Moped
next time I'll wear my welding gloves like I should have.
The DIY thread - DIYourself
- Thread starter Red Mosquito
- Start date
So I guess it was a weekend for closets.
Not quite as fancy as RU's,
but added I a shelf with a little help from @1sh0t1b33r
I sent him this:
He made it like this (x2):
So pro.
And I installed one this weekend.
Not a great shot, but as you can see it fully supports a Chihuahua, no sag.
Thanks Magic!
Next up is a leaky toilet.
It's not bad, so I am expecting a compromised wax donut. We'll see when I pull the bowl.
Not quite as fancy as RU's,
but added I a shelf with a little help from @1sh0t1b33r
I sent him this:
He made it like this (x2):
So pro.
And I installed one this weekend.
Not a great shot, but as you can see it fully supports a Chihuahua, no sag.
Thanks Magic!
Next up is a leaky toilet.
It's not bad, so I am expecting a compromised wax donut. We'll see when I pull the bowl.
Magic
Formerly 1sh0t1b33r
This Chip picture is so good. If only 'Chip on the Shelf' had as good a ring to it, it would make a great hashtag for Instagram.
jnos
Well-Known Member
gtluke
The Moped
forgot to update my TV mount install
okay first of all, it was never my intention to buy a TV so thin, this thing is ridiculous. I wanted the better speaker setup that comes with this one and this is the year end of TV and they discounted them all like crazy, it wasn't much money between the basic model of this TV and this one with the better sound (and absurdly thin)
I put it on an articulating mount so i can move it where I need it. This is the stationary bike position
normal position
my couch is offset from this wall, so when I watch the olympics I crash in the corner of the room, so I turn the TV towards me. I have the nice stereo under it, but the speakers are not in the right spot for watching TV, hence the need for nicer TV speakers. not to mention that my 60's setup doesn't have a volume remote, which is pretty annoying.
okay first of all, it was never my intention to buy a TV so thin, this thing is ridiculous. I wanted the better speaker setup that comes with this one and this is the year end of TV and they discounted them all like crazy, it wasn't much money between the basic model of this TV and this one with the better sound (and absurdly thin)
I put it on an articulating mount so i can move it where I need it. This is the stationary bike position
normal position
my couch is offset from this wall, so when I watch the olympics I crash in the corner of the room, so I turn the TV towards me. I have the nice stereo under it, but the speakers are not in the right spot for watching TV, hence the need for nicer TV speakers. not to mention that my 60's setup doesn't have a volume remote, which is pretty annoying.
gtluke
The Moped
the brightness/hdr/contrast of the OLED tv's is bonkers. I'm seriously impressed. Even broadcast TV over the air looks unreal.
The dobly atmos sound is nuts too, it somehow projects surround sound from the TV, I swear I've turned around a few times because something was coming from behind me. magical stuff.
The dobly atmos sound is nuts too, it somehow projects surround sound from the TV, I swear I've turned around a few times because something was coming from behind me. magical stuff.
What tube gear are you running?forgot to update my TV mount install
okay first of all, it was never my intention to buy a TV so thin, this thing is ridiculous. I wanted the better speaker setup that comes with this one and this is the year end of TV and they discounted them all like crazy, it wasn't much money between the basic model of this TV and this one with the better sound (and absurdly thin)
I put it on an articulating mount so i can move it where I need it. This is the stationary bike position
normal position
my couch is offset from this wall, so when I watch the olympics I crash in the corner of the room, so I turn the TV towards me. I have the nice stereo under it, but the speakers are not in the right spot for watching TV, hence the need for nicer TV speakers. not to mention that my 60's setup doesn't have a volume remote, which is pretty annoying.
gtluke
The Moped
It's actually all custom hand made.
How much info you want? Hehe
Three Channel Amplifier
Power output - Somewhere between 20 and 25 watts per channel, never measured because I don't care and nobody can probably hear the difference between 15 and 30 watts.
Tubeset:
EL84M, 7189A, 6P14P, 6P14P-EV (2 required for each of the 3 channels, total of 6)
12AX7 (1 required for each of the 3 channels, total of 3)
Exterior/General
1. Solid oak frame with polished aluminum top.
2. Custom aluminum disk feet will accept the vibrapod isolator. http://www.vibrapod.com/
2. Inputs - Gold plated RCA jacks with teflon insulators.
3. Outputs - 3 way gold plated binding posts for the speakers.
4. Power - standard IEC type cable.
5. Fuse - 5 amp slo-blow.
6. Tube sockets are gold plated in ceramic bodies.
7. The center ammeter is non-functional.
Power supply
1. Two mosfet regulated high voltage power supplies with less than .2 volts ripple.
2. The two HV power supplies feature a slow turn on so the tube set is not blasted with HV when first turned on.
3. Circuit is knock off of welborne labs's PS3. http://www.welbornelabs.com/ps3.htm
4. Four HV caps line rear of chassis. They came from a high power high voltage laser weapon project that my work never got a contract for.
5. The power supply transformer was sourced from a 1960's Fisher 300 receiver.
6. For the most part, the power supplies are all printed circuit construction.
7. The small signal 12AX7 tubes have a DC regulated heater supply circuit.
8. Solid copper core wire used to wire heaters.
9. NTC device in power supply "line" to avoid inrush currents to house.
Amplifier
1. Schematic used is the Acrosound ultralinear.
1a. The outer two output transformers do not have ultralinear taps, which required the secondary HV power supply to feed the output the necessary voltage to operate.
1b. The center output transformer is an ultralinear transformer, and is wired up in ultralinear mode.
1c. The amp is configured in the classic AB mode.
1d. The amp is a cathode biased design, no bias adjustments are needed because the cathode resistors takes care of it.
2. Point to point construction.
3. Very high quality mil spec paper/oil capacitors used in signal path, and are bypassed with high quality polypropylene film caps. I often considered ripping these caps for other projects! It's essential to use excellant quality caps in the signal path.
4. The outer two transformers were sourced from a 1960's vintage Fisher 300 receiver. The center transformer is from a ST-35 Dynaco amplifier.
5. One percent tolerance metal film resistors used when possible in the audio circuit.
Mr.Moto
Well-Known Member
Did you use a custom LG mount? I got one last year and went with the LG mount because they did not design the backs for universal mounts. Kinda stupid design. Mount is okay but the wall side was not ideal for offset stud mounting. Other than that OLED is nice. Wish there was more 4K things to watch.
gtluke
The Moped
I just bought one off Amazon. I did have to take a cut off wheel to it though, due to the way this tv is built. The mount is on the bottom 1/4 and not in the middle.
holy hell - i'm upstate where there is no cell service - i have a microcell, directv, and cable internet.
internet shits the bed. do basic stuff, knowing that they have marked the cable modem for retirement.
no luck.
i drive up the road, and call - the tech says the cable modem has been tombstoned (not his words) and that i
need to go to TWC in the morning for a new one. Ok - it is 8 years old. NP.
next day go to twc. Get home - hook it up, same problem. the cable network sees the cable modem (i drove up the road to check) - the router sees the cable modem,
but not the internet. It worked when i got here a day ago. And now it doesn't. hmm, what is different? Nothing.
I decided the router stb. I don't need much, so i run down to staples and p/u a basic netgear ac unit.
Connect all the wires, and turn it on. Same thing!
ok, so it is either a provisioning problem or......well, the network is protecting itself from something.
I disconnect all my wired devices, reboot everything, and i have connectivity.
Start hooking things up, and testing. As soon as i plug-in the directv box up, internet goes offline.
I haven't checked the google yet - but that is really suspect.
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in other related news, my kid brought his xbox with him, and we have an older panasonic lcd tv in the basement. he hooks it up via hdmi,
and it doesn't work. ends up that the xbox has blacklisted the hdmi device codes for that (and many older) model, after 2 hours of debugging.
i'll need an hdmi to component bridge to get it to work - or a new bike.
internet shits the bed. do basic stuff, knowing that they have marked the cable modem for retirement.
no luck.
i drive up the road, and call - the tech says the cable modem has been tombstoned (not his words) and that i
need to go to TWC in the morning for a new one. Ok - it is 8 years old. NP.
next day go to twc. Get home - hook it up, same problem. the cable network sees the cable modem (i drove up the road to check) - the router sees the cable modem,
but not the internet. It worked when i got here a day ago. And now it doesn't. hmm, what is different? Nothing.
I decided the router stb. I don't need much, so i run down to staples and p/u a basic netgear ac unit.
Connect all the wires, and turn it on. Same thing!
ok, so it is either a provisioning problem or......well, the network is protecting itself from something.
I disconnect all my wired devices, reboot everything, and i have connectivity.
Start hooking things up, and testing. As soon as i plug-in the directv box up, internet goes offline.
I haven't checked the google yet - but that is really suspect.
-----
in other related news, my kid brought his xbox with him, and we have an older panasonic lcd tv in the basement. he hooks it up via hdmi,
and it doesn't work. ends up that the xbox has blacklisted the hdmi device codes for that (and many older) model, after 2 hours of debugging.
i'll need an hdmi to component bridge to get it to work - or a new bike.
gtluke
The Moped
$20 and
Very cool. I had a bunch of tube gear, including some Dynaco stuff until one vintage tube amp set itself on fire. Switched to a 50+ year old Bryston amp and some class A solid state gear and never looked back. Loved the sound of tube gear but do not miss the biasing and the fire.
Karate Monkey
Well-Known Member
We had a rack of tube amps hooked up to our organ's output, and even a Hammond amp/speaker at one point. Good riddance! We had it during that honeymoon period where tubes were impossible to find in the US, and you couldn't easily get them from Russia, yet. The organ doesn't play anymore, but you know, small detail.
BTW, anyone who wants the salvage weight of that instrument, it's all yours (and all the electronics are copper--lots of them--it weighs around 600 pounds). You just need to haul it out of the house. Technically it functions, but the cord was cut, and the manufacturer lost the diagrams for the umbilical.
what are you pluggin the diretv box into?