The turret board supplied by Ampmaker is very good quality and very nice to work with. All the turrets are in place, just ready for the components to go on. As with the SE-5a amp that I built last year, my first step was to get a sheet of card, and stick the various resistors, capaacitors and so on to it, each clearly labelled with the values. This makes selecting the right value component much easier. It is worth taking a bit of time with this step. Once the components have all been identified, it is a case of soldering them to the board, snipping them to length and basically double checking everything. The board before assembly is shown on the left
The assembled turret board with all the components is below:
A close up of a part of the board:
After this, the next stage is to connect the various wires to the turret board - these are the wires that connect to the valve sockets, switches, sockets and rotary controls
Ampmakers manual is very clear in this respect. The correct lengths of wires are given and where to solder them - first class instructions. Plenty of wire is provided and there is always plenty to spare.
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