Hello ting.mike!
Welcome aboard!
Keep us posted with your troubleshooting progress.. we could certainly learn a thing or two from your troubleshooting work..
I started the same way too!
Do you have your own blog to share?

Hi Jazzy,
I suck at trouble shooting.. anyway psychaudio pointed out to me that one of the resistors, R2 (or R8, can't remember which channel it was) blew up. I really am not sure what caused it. Silly me, instead of just replacing the R2, I went and dismantled everything.
Actually I really want to get the SSMH re-cased in a nicer enclosure, since the only thing preventing me from using that amplifier more is the crappy 1/4 jack and case my friend used to build it.

So, now everything is dismantled. It'll probably be a while before it's back and running. I have to make time to get some resistors first.

The next time I build it, I will use a bigger heatsink for the mosfets, since the default heatsinks run way too hot.

I don't have a personal blog, but I am working on this site called www.headfonia.com. Please go easy on the reviews though, as I'm quite a noob when it comes to doing reviews.

Hi!
Take it easy, one step at a time..

Dismantling is EASY work.. we can get carried away..! Hahahaha..
MOSFETS are heat monsters! Make sure you satisfy the heat dissipation requirements.

headfonia? Will have a look! Thanks.

Have fun!

Been reading through the pages.. you guys are really hardcore!
Love that F5 built by cchua.

This post has been edited by ting.mike: Jan 22 2010, 02:13 AM

He's the hardcore one!
Count me out!

Yes, the F5 is one kickass amp.. I almost build one, fortunately I already have one that I really like and it's kinda hard to justify to the Home Minister, why I need another amp! Hehehehe..

OMG... F5 in malaysia?

Yes.. check out previous postings..

I bet there are many F5s in malaysia. I've got two myself. The F5 in my desktop keyboard and the F5 in my laptop keyboard. My wife's laptop also has an F5 I suppose.

Hehehehe... wonder how the K1000 AKG sounds out of the F5.

Very funny ting.mike! For a moment there you got me too!!!

Great way to start the day, eh?

I have read lots of review saying K1000 is legendary , but how great it is left unknown to me.

Listen is to believe. Anyone want to help me out?

^hang two speaker drivers across your ears to emulate the k1000.

PROBLEM SETTLED.

That's a good one.

LittleGhost, I notice that you design and build amplifiers. Just want to ask though, is there a good source for portable-size hammond casing in Malaysia?

i usually get them from farnell. Though their price is far from being ideal. I don't think you can get them elsewhere over here in malaysia.

Still, they make good standard cases for a variety of board sizes.

i won't get them personally for loose builds, but I'd really get them for perfection purposes

Yes, the Hammonds aren't cheap.. only good amps should be put inside.

I found a good casing for the SSMH, but the top and bottom doesn't open, only the front and back. Bummer. Pretty hard to do point to point on that box.

The bee amp is a kind of what I call greening the classics. The topology are classics and simple but have been tweaks by me to get the best for it kind. Since it have pretty big bass and high frequency is linearity so in most cheap component used in wiring (RCA, CD Player, computer sound) it will me a good match. If you got a very high end component such as a good CD player with a real flat preamplifier this bee amp will make a big bass so it maybe not very matching here. But for the cost i spend in this amplifier is a worth to me. In upgrade this bee amp I think I have push the limit for this kind of amplifier topology.

Yeah finally there are diy massive heatsink sold in Malaysia . I got a pre make aleph power amplifier (Class A Build on 2006) but so hard to find a good heatsink. The diy casing, I must see it first so hope it fit on my dual big toroid transformer (1kw from Norway) and those stock Capacitors . More hope the heatsink is capable to absorb those very-very hot MOSFET.
This aleph amplifier will be my reference amp for my next project.

I now stay at Sri Kembangan but maybe on this year on Jun I will move to Nilai Negeri Sembilan.

Thank you gabanyaya for this url. glad the diy community are now growing in malaysia...

Im staying at Seri Kembangan also. maybe we can have a DIY meeting session

Aik? 'DIY meeting' 2 persons only? Sounds like a 'date'.. HAHAHAHA

true also, i know LittleGhost is staying around also.. hehe
maybe we could make a gathering of DIYers, the more the merrier

where got meeting for 3 peoples.....no fun.....we must ask nanhifi first if he willing to be the host????