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    Posted: 07 Apr 2013 at 5:21pm
Hi all, my name is Mick, I'm new here so hello all.

I ordered the Novo Headphone Amp kit a couple of weeks ago which arrived on Friday, so I thought I would add a few pics and show you how I got on.

First of all, although I love computers and the internet, I get the feeling that this forum update will take me rather longer than the kit build (that is currently going through a burn in).


Kit arrived and box unpacked.
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Didn't realise how bad my 46 year old eyes were, I had to take photo's of some of the components, then zoom right in to identify them!!!


The smallest part which my 11 year old daughter could read, my wife just said "is there writing on that"??
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Once I'd identified the resistors, I laid them out in no particular order and the soldering began.
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At first I just balanced the PCB between two of the kit boxes (no I wasn't very prepared). Moving into Saturday morning I had to go purchase a "helping hands" from Maplin's for a very reasonable £10. This tied in with having to take my Cyrus streamer back to the shop for a firmware update (don't get me started)!!
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Next were the capacitors.


Sorry, don't know how to rotate the image.

Identification, then more soldering. It was at this stage that I realised I had been using lead free solder..........Aaaaggggh.......too late now! Angry
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Coming on nicely.
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Sprinkle in a liberal helping of diodes.



I missed the part in the destructions that said "solder a tinned piece of copper wire from the phone block to the ground tag on the rear panel" (or words to that effect). I then had to improvise and solder a piece of 0.75mm insulated copper wire underneath the PCB joining the Neg of the phono block to where the Earth fly lead originates (chassis tag). It was either that, or remove the phono block!


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