Posted by myrun (A) on February 11, 2007 at 09:17:50

Hi Folks,
I'm a newbie (have only built a few bottlehead kits) and am trying to build the Ladyday+ mkII monoblocks. Sorry in advance for what will probably be read as dumb questions, but here goes....

Can anyone provide a photo of their Ladyday+ mkII completed wiring? I have many questions that the diagram/instructions aren't helping me with. If no photos are out there, maybe you could help instead by addressing these questions:

1) What is the best wiring technique to use? i.e., what is best routing of the wiring and which wires should be twisted together and which not...or does this even matter?

The instructions state the kits includes "thick" wire and "thin" wire but my kit just has one roll of wire and one roll of insulation. I didn't worry about this until the manual directed me to use "thick" wire from the ps pcb lower ground trace to the ground side of the large green cathode resistor.

2) A close-up on the ps pcb board would help as well. There is already a 10w .47k ohm resistor wired from the board's lower ground trace to the chassis ground tab (it is connected to the pcb not on the lower left point, but two points over to the right..sort of lower middle). The intructions simply state to wire a 5W resistor...I'm confused; do I need to wire a different "5W" resistor in addition to the 10W.47r? If so, as I can only identify them by testing ohm resistance, so what resistance should the 5W resistor have?

3) the ccs pcb seems to have holes too small for the hookup wire. Would you recommend me finding smaller gauge wire so that it fits in the holes or to simply solder the included wire to the bottom contact points of the ccs pcb

4) I'm seems this kit is missing one large cap for each of the monoblocks. I have both caps that will sit on either side of the rectifier tube socket (2.2uF/630v and 10uF/630v). I also have the 47uF/160v large black cap that goes by the 330b socket, but seem to be missing what the diagram shows as a large orange ".22uF" can shaped cap that goes by the 300b socket as well. Could this cap be the large brown rectangular chiclet looking thing that is marked "100000 +/- 5%, 500v GM or SM or 3M" or am I missing a can?

Thanks again for all your help...this is a step up for me in terms of building using a diagram instead of step-by-step wire A ---> B instructions/photos.

Regards,
Mario