Re: Remote Power Supply Connection

>> "> **** Brussels.

I tend to agree with you, but.....

>
> Do it yourself and who will know?

If the house is damaged by fire, even if it is nothing to
do with the amp, it's a stone cold certainty, as least
in this part of the world that the insurance company
will deem the cover invalid.

And what happens when you start your next DIY
amp? You sell the existing one to that pal of yours
who has been pestering you to let him have it since
day one.  If something happens, friend****p will count
for nought, he (or his wife) will come after you with
everything they can muster.  It doesn�t even have to
be anything as serious as a fire, one of the children
may burn him/herself on an exposed power tube.

Safety is not a thing to be taken lightly, Bret.

> Put simply the use of an outboard power supply chassis is the OPTIMUM
way
> to achieve the BEST possible performance.

Agreed.  My 50 watt stereo amp is built that way.
The psu weighs 40kgs. The noise floor is -106dB

>
> I'd use common 8 or 11 (yes there is) pin octal connectors.

Yes. The 11 pin is a relay base, but the use of octal or 11 pin
plugs and sockets for high voltage DC is strictly forbidden here.
with no exceptions made for modifications. Things may be
different in the US, I don't know."<<

 You are in-and don't take this personally-a very ****ed up country. Mind
you, mine's headed that same goddamned way. The essentially female
mentality, as Dr. Pierce correctly pointed out, which is a healthy thing
inside the home, when allowed to _legislate_ makes the country unlivable
for any self respecting male. 

 That said...First, I KNOW for a fact that in Australia and New Zealand
both as well as the UK, there are people running vintage Mc and Altec hi
fi with separate factory power supplies as well as numbers of ham radio
operators using Collins, Drake, Yaesu and Heathkit gear with separate
power supplies. If THEY are allowed to get away with it why are YOU not?
Geese and ganders and all that.

 There is NOTHING unsafe about high voltage power cords as long as they
are correctly specified and terminated. Long experience has proven that
electrocutions with using and servicing high voltage equipment are almost
invariably from the AC mains and not internal HV. That's even true of
microwave ovens and the old tube oscilloscopes and avionics. 

 And....NEVER sell working homemade mains powered DIY equipment ever.
Ever.  ALWAYS disable it and sell it as parts with no connected AC cord.
If nothing else remove the power transformer and cut the wires off the IEC
connector or fixed cord and terminate the cord with wire nuts or cut it
off. That way the buyer "repairs" it and is now the builder. Why do you
think 80% of new piston aircraft registrations worldwide are Experimental
Amateur Built? 

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