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[Guvna19]

Any possibility we could see a DIY tube amp Kit?

my ears pricked up at the initial mention of 'tube/valve amp heads to come ?' ( *checks over shoulder to ensure missus doesnt hear my thoughts, ...when i mentioned my intent of getting one more guitar, and my 1st PB - LP kit around August the seed was planted...hehe)

After all, everyone here seems to love the building part as much as the result. I'd most probably pay extra just to DIY.
Building my Lapsteel myself recently proved far more enjoying than $aving coin. ....just thinkin outloud

Anyone else here like to make an amp?

[DrNomis_44]

Any possibility we could see a DIY tube amp Kit?

my ears pricked up at the initial mention of 'tube/valve amp heads to come ?' ( *checks over shoulder to ensure missus doesnt hear my thoughts, ...when i mentioned my intent of getting one more guitar, and my 1st PB - LP kit around August the seed was planted...hehe)

After all, everyone here seems to love the building part as much as the result. I'd most probably pay extra just to DIY.
Building my Lapsteel myself recently proved far more enjoying than $aving coin. ....just thinkin outloud

Anyone else here like to make an amp?

You could consider checking out, and maybe buying one of the Lamington Amp kits.

[stan]

Any possibility we could see a DIY tube amp Kit?

my ears pricked up at the initial mention of 'tube/valve amp heads to come ?' ( *checks over shoulder to ensure missus doesnt hear my thoughts, ...when i mentioned my intent of getting one more guitar, and my 1st PB - LP kit around August the seed was planted...hehe)

After all, everyone here seems to love the building part as much as the result. I'd most probably pay extra just to DIY.
Building my Lapsteel myself recently proved far more enjoying than $aving coin. ....just thinkin outloud

Anyone else here like to make an amp?

It's a nice idea, but it's been floated before.
Ads and the team are very conscious of the safety and quality of their products - one problem with DIY amps is that if you do it wrong the consequences can be pretty big - hence nice economical complete amps vs DIY.

Doc's suggestion of lamington amps is a good one, and reports of them are good

[OliSam]

It's a nice idea, but it's been floated before.
Ads and the team are very conscious of the safety and quality of their products - one problem with DIY amps is that if you do it wrong the consequences can be pretty big - hence nice economical complete amps vs DIY.

Doc's suggestion of lamington amps is a good one, and reports of them are good

kind of agree with this point. I've been really keen (lamington amps in particular) for a few years to give this a go but am a little worried about electricity meeting my hands in the wrong situation.......

[DrNomis_44]

It's a nice idea, but it's been floated before.
Ads and the team are very conscious of the safety and quality of their products - one problem with DIY amps is that if you do it wrong the consequences can be pretty big - hence nice economical complete amps vs DIY.

Doc's suggestion of lamington amps is a good one, and reports of them are good

Definitely, when building a valve type guitar amp the danger of getting an electric shock from one is very real, there is very little margin for error, and all it takes is for electrical current to pass from one hand across your chest to your other hand to cause your heart to go into fibrillation (the heart stops beating normally), which will have fatal consequences if you don't know what you're doing, I've been pretty lucky so far but I wouldn't tempt fate.


To safely work on a valve amplifier you need to follow correct electrical-safety procedures.


When I did an Electrical Testing & Tagging course to get my Electrical Testing & Tagging card, we were taught that as little as around 100mA, or .1 of an amp, is enough to cause heart Fibrillation, the current levels in a valve guitar amp can easily exceed this due to the HT supply filter caps (typically around 100uF or so in value) storing electrical charge, it's not the voltage that kills, it's the current.

https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/sa...alCurrent.html


And considering that the average Australian household 240V AC power socket is capable of supplying up to something like 15 Amps , they can be instantly lethal.

[Guvna19]

It's a nice idea, but it's been floated before.
Ads and the team are very conscious of the safety and quality of their products - one problem with DIY amps is that if you do it wrong the consequences can be pretty big - hence nice economical complete amps vs DIY.

Doc's suggestion of lamington amps is a good one, and reports of them are good

Wise advice , and all points taken. I hearby retract the DIY amp suggestion in the name of Safety