{"id":8572,"date":"2020-06-23T19:49:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T18:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/?p=8572"},"modified":"2020-06-23T19:49:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T18:49:20","slug":"300b-se-amp-46-driver-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2020\/06\/23\/300b-se-amp-46-driver-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"300B SE Amp: 46 Driver (Part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And time arrived to start experimenting with the different drivers. Why? Well, the whole point of the latest modular design is that I can easily (I hope) make quick changes and experiment.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2020\/05\/12\/300b-se-amp-build-part-vii-d3a-driver\/\">D3a driver board<\/a> can be replaced with a new one. In fact I will be building a pair of stacked boards (which are in essence ground planes) to hold the SUT as well as a pentode screen bias regulator and the driver board.<\/p>\n<p>First incarnation will be on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2020\/03\/08\/46-driver\/\">46 DHT<\/a>. However, drilled the board to fit either loctal (e.g. 4P1L, C3g, etc.) as well as noval for other 9-pin drivers I have in mind.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8573\" style=\"width: 2016px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0575.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8573\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2020\/06\/23\/300b-se-amp-46-driver-part-i\/img_0575-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0575.jpg?fit=2016%2C1026&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2016,1026\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 11&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1592941173&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.25&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_0575\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;46 driver in progress&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0575.jpg?fit=840%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8573\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0575.jpg?resize=840%2C428\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0575.jpg?w=2016&amp;ssl=1 2016w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0575.jpg?resize=300%2C153&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0575.jpg?resize=1024%2C521&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0575.jpg?resize=768%2C391&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0575.jpg?resize=1536%2C782&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0575.jpg?resize=1200%2C611&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0575.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">46 driver in progress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The build process is fast. I have the ground plane PCBs, which I drill (M3) to fit multiple plastic hex standoff to hold either PCBs or different <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/for-sale\/building-block-pcbs\/\">turret\/2mm connectors<\/a> to plug in\/out the board as needed. This LEGO-like approach is amazing, very happy with the flexibility and speed of work I can get with this.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And time arrived to start experimenting with the different drivers. Why? Well, the whole point of the latest modular design is that I can easily (I hope) make quick changes and experiment. The D3a driver board can be replaced with a new one. In fact I will be building a pair of stacked boards (which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2020\/06\/23\/300b-se-amp-46-driver-part-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;300B SE Amp: 46 Driver (Part I)&#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],"tags":[1217,394,272,281,1355,1356,417,822],"class_list":["post-8572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-300b-amp","tag-300b-se-amp","tag-46-dht","tag-46-driver","tag-46-triode","tag-lego-like-diy-amplifiers","tag-modular-amplifiers","tag-se-amp","tag-se-amplifier"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2r2tK-2eg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8572","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=8572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8574,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8572\/revisions\/8574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}