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Jon, my DIY RCA connections have a faulty process!

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I fully believe it to be the "craftsman"!

Since late last year, I have been building several sets of DIY interconnects, trying out different materials, but mostly because I have more components that need more interconnects.

In the last weeks I have had all kinds of odd/unrepeatable/destructive problems with these IC's. Although I somehow thought it was a heat shrink process, I have had another problem with a set that I had yet to heat shrink.

Symptoms are like loops or shorts (nasty). They tend to occur when I have just changed/removed/relocated the IC's. Gotta be the solder connections and most likely the braid portion of the IC. I think that my solder process may be melting the inner dielectric too much or something.

I gotta start at RCA/IC construction 101 again. I have read your and Thorstens DIY in the past, but boy something is real amiss.

At least I now know how much capacitor storage energy my monoblocks have. Long loud deep hums for more than 10 seconds seems like a nice reserve!


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Topic - Jon, my DIY RCA connections have a faulty process! - Edp 11:24:24 03/25/99 (16)


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