Anyone use foil tape for shielding in an amp?

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Seemoore
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Anyone use foil tape for shielding in an amp?

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Like covering the heater wires or for lead dress?
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Re: Anyone use foil tape for shielding in an amp?

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Interesting concept.

TR in their early amps used an interesting shield made by wrapping a solid core wire around the signal wire grounding it on the low impedance end. I guess you could do the same thing with heater wires.

But in practice, I have never found a need to do so on heaters (especially if you have enough standoff for the heater wires.

Now on a PCB (like my MatchBox), I used DC heaters, just to make sure :).

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Re: Anyone use foil tape for shielding in an amp?

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Yea, I built an 18watt from GuitaramplifierPCBs that suggested the same thing, wrap a wire with solid core, seems to work.
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Seemoore wrote:Yea, I built an 18watt from GuitaramplifierPCBs that suggested the same thing, wrap a wire with solid core, seems to work.
As long as you don't ground both end of the wrap :).
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