100 watt HRM nearly finished

Normster · Post by **Normster** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 3:04 am

I just fired it up for the first time tonight. Very quiet! Hats off to Brandon for making the chassis and boards available. (And for answering my dumb questions.)

I'll finish up the FET tomorrow and wire up the LED. For now I'm just happy the thing actually works!

heisthl · Post by **heisthl** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 3:55 am

Look Ma, no FET - Very pretty build and I doubt if the output transformer is going to pull through the chassis anytime soon.

Great looking work.

odourboy · Post by **odourboy** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 5:41 am

SWEET!

Happy New Years guys!!!

Normster · Post by **Normster** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 8:07 am

Thanks, guys!

Heisthl, take a close look at the front view. Those fender washers are holding in a 100 watt Mercury Mag OPT with 2-1/2" lams! Damn thing weighs more than the PT.

El_Martin · Post by **El_Martin** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 9:35 am

Pretty&neat

Congrats, Norm!

Happy New Year!

Ciao
Martin
PS: wanna have my own Dumble

heisthl · Post by **heisthl** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:04 am

Where did you get the small shouldered 1/4" metal beauty washers on the mini toggles?

Normster · Post by **Normster** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 4:53 pm

The beauty washer is just an illusion. It's an ugly star washer.

Structo · Post by **Structo** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 5:17 pm

Man, what a sweet looking build Norm!

I'll bet it rocks!

brownnote · Post by **brownnote** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:29 pm

heisthl wrote:Where did you get the small shouldered 1/4" metal beauty washers on the mini toggles?

FYI: mcmaster has some thin stainless washers with a .25"ID that work great as beauty washers for the mini-toggles.

Looks great Norm!

Structo · Post by **Structo** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:58 pm

Is that mcmaster/ carr?

brownnote · Post by **brownnote** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 11:06 pm

mlp-mx6 · Post by **mlp-mx6** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:56 am

Does anyone know of a source other than angela.com for the 15/32 size beauty washers that fit a toggle switch? The Angela ones are nice, but at $1 each it seems pretty steep for a washer.

EDIT - Sorry for the hijack, I'll start a new thread.

skyboltone · Post by **skyboltone** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:35 am

Normster:
Just a classically beautiful build. Something to shoot for. It's called planning I think. I always put in the last wires first then go backward from there. I got so many extra holes in my Hybrid A they look like lightening holes.

Wow
Dan H

Normster · Post by **Normster** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:34 am

Dan, this one took longer than usual. I spent a lot of time planning the order of assembly and staring incessently at Dumble photos. It was the 80/20 rule...80% thinking about it and 20% actually doing it.

heisthl · Post by **heisthl** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:56 am

Normster wrote:Dan, this one took longer than usual. I spent a lot of time planning the order of assembly and staring incessently at Dumble photos. It was the 80/20 rule...80% thinking about it and 20% actually doing it.

I hear ya, but wouldn't you agree that there is some benefit to doing at least one accurate copy? All my builds since have been better builds.

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