{"id":11877,"date":"2024-11-12T14:29:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T14:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/?p=11877"},"modified":"2024-11-12T14:29:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T14:29:48","slug":"hybrid-mu-follower-boards-in-smd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2024\/11\/12\/hybrid-mu-follower-boards-in-smd\/","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid mu-follower boards in SMD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2020\/03\/31\/3-versions-of-the-gyrator-board\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2020\/03\/31\/3-versions-of-the-gyrator-board\/\">these boards <\/a>for many years now. Haven&#8217;t offered them as is required for anyone to be experienced well enough in SMD soldering to get these done effectively. I have a reflow oven so work at scale is easier this way. I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of SMD board design and building over the past few years though. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a busy time regardless, I found the space to build these four commissioned boards for D3a drivers like the ones I used on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/300b-se-amplifier\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"8577\">300B amplifier<\/a>. There seems to be a lot of interest and build work done around this design, so happy to see this happening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1594.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"400\" data-attachment-id=\"11878\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2024\/11\/12\/hybrid-mu-follower-boards-in-smd\/img_1594-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1594.jpeg?fit=1280%2C610&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,610\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1594\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1594.jpeg?fit=840%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1594.jpeg?resize=840%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1594.jpeg?resize=1024%2C488&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1594.jpeg?resize=300%2C143&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1594.jpeg?resize=768%2C366&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1594.jpeg?resize=1200%2C572&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1594.jpeg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hybrid mu-follower SMD boards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_5515.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"559\" data-attachment-id=\"11879\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2024\/11\/12\/hybrid-mu-follower-boards-in-smd\/img_5515\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_5515.jpeg?fit=1280%2C853&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,853\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_5515\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_5515.jpeg?fit=840%2C559&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_5515.jpeg?resize=840%2C559&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_5515.jpeg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_5515.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_5515.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_5515.jpeg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_5515.jpeg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hybrid-mu follower board<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using these boards for many years now. Haven&#8217;t offered them as is required for anyone to be experienced well enough in SMD soldering to get these done effectively. I have a reflow oven so work at scale is easier this way. I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of SMD board design and building over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2024\/11\/12\/hybrid-mu-follower-boards-in-smd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hybrid mu-follower boards in SMD&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[673,911,1179,156,5],"tags":[836,625,294,1325,186,875,652,1300],"class_list":["post-11877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-300b-amp","category-gyrator-pcb","category-pcb","category-pre-amplifier-valves","category-valves","tag-300b-amplifier","tag-bartola","tag-d3a","tag-d3a-driver","tag-dht-preamp","tag-gyrator-pcb","tag-hybrid-mu-follower","tag-smd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2r2tK-35z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11880,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877\/revisions\/11880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}