My Rocket

[sniffyduke]

I do not know what I got myself into.

Nik, Mark, Ron, Rj have helped me get started. Now its time for me to screw it up. LOL

I have no Idea why I used felt LOL

I will let you know in about 2years whenI am done if it worked.



Thanks to all the guys above for putting up with me : )

Mike

[sniffyduke]

Should of just used a board. But I pictured a TopHat amp in my head.

[geekmacdaddy]

Yeah baby. Do it. It's worth it. Great amp. Yours looks cool as hell so far.

[sniffyduke]

I am getting ready for the Caps. I decided to use Sozo Blues.

I have no Idea why. I think John at Sozo suggested it.

Now I just having trouble with the signal paths and the darn black line on the caps.

Here is what it says on the Sozo Website:

Which direction should the outside foil go?

My rule would be: Connect the outside foil terminal of the capacitor to the lowest impedance side of the circuit. For coupling applications, orient the capacitor so that the outer foil connects to the "incoming signal" and the inner foil to the "output" side of the circuit. Signal sources are almost always lower impedance than signal loads.

For tone control circuits it is not as simple to define the signal in and signal out terminals of the capacitor. Tone control circuits operate with significant AC voltages across them. For the case where one end of the capacitor is grounded [simple treble cut circuit] the rule breaks down. The signal source should not be connected to the outside foil in this case; the outside foil should be connected to ground.


Should I face all the black lines towards the pots?

[Structo]

Some guys say it makes a big difference to have the outer foil correctly oriented while others say it doesn't matter.

What John is saying is, for the coupling caps between stages, the black line should be towards the input side of the amp.
In other areas, it can go towards the tube or ground.

Here is a picture of Rawnsters amp using Sozos.

I'm not certain how he oriented his caps but they look correct.

[sniffyduke]

Yes, that looks right, thanks : )

[M Fowler]

Mike (Sniffyduke),

Should have rolled out the red carpet for this one aye

The picture you emailed me showed the cap stack had three where the rest buddy?

Mark