D-lator build

[erwin_ve]

Since may 08 I am the happy owner of a Ceriatone Ots. After some serious modding of this amp I had one big desire; a tube fx-loop aka d*mblelator.
1 1/2 month ago I tried one of a ampgarageboard-member (Airniles) see topic: https://tubeamparchive.com/viewtopic.php?t=6927who's living in the Netherlands. It was such a nice experience, the d-lator added nice harmonics, compression and makes the od sound real sweet.

So I decided to build one myself. Sourcing parts was time consuming.
I finished it at Christmas eve and gigged it this weekend. It's really nice, also without effects! No hum, very little noise when set to max. Also kept the filament wires a little bit apart from the rest of the wiring.
Tomorrow the lettering is done, with some volunteering of Airniles.

Many thnx to Funk; with his tutorial it's easy! Also thnx to Airniles who came up with the powersupply for EU and also volunteered to help me with the lettering.
Here some building pics:

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[img]http:800:600]http://members.chello.nl/e.verdurmen/go ... assis1.jpg[/img]

After drilling some holes:

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[img:800:600]http://members.chello.nl/e.verdurmen/go ... assis3.jpg[/img]

[img]http:800:600]http://members.chello.nl/e.verdurmen/go ... assis4.jpg[/img]

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[img]http:800:600]http://members.chello.nl/e.verdurmen/go ... assis7.jpg[/img]

[img:800:671]http://members.chello.nl/e.verdurmen/go ... mpleet.jpg[/img]

[jezzbo]

Hey Erwin,

Looks like a nice build.
Do you have concerts in the near future?
I really would like to here your OTS with dumbelator.

btw what mods did you do to the OTS?

greetings from Belgium.

Jesse

[erwin_ve]

Hey Erwin,

Looks like a nice build.
Do you have concerts in the near future?
I really would like to here your OTS with dumbelator.

btw what mods did you do to the OTS?

greetings from Belgium.

Jesse

Sure! PM me for details.

[erwin_ve]

Today the lettering is done!

[erwin_ve]

And the back.

[Structo]

What did you use for the lettering?

Looks nice!

[erwin_ve]

What did you use for the lettering?

Looks nice!

The lettering was the only thing I didn't DIY. Airniles did the lettering real neat. He used Letraset. It's old skool rubbing the letters on.

[nickm57]

Looks good.
How did that transformer go with the heater voltages? I'm finding it difficult to find a suitable one here(Australia 240v), that will fit into a 1U rack case.
Nick

[erwin_ve]

Looks good.
How did that transformer go with the heater voltages? I'm finding it difficult to find a suitable one here(Australia 240v), that will fit into a 1U rack case.
Nick

I used the same as Airniles; Amplimo 1N242. It's designed for more pre-amp tubes, so there's a 2,2 ohm (3w) resistor(in serie) to drop the voltage to 6,3 v.