MagnaWatt 1Watt tube amplifier development thread

[MJ_Sound_Cubed]

Hello All  ,

"Parva Res Magna"

This Latin expression translates to English, as the small greats. The perfect inspiration to build a small low power amplifier with great tone.

This is the first step of a pleasurable journey, of crowdsourcing ideas, visualization of concepts, experimentation of possibilities, design of prototypes and enjoying the final amplifiers.

Currently there are a few options in the market, with a wide variety of tubes ranging from the current production ones to the NOS sub mini sorts. In the tiny head shaped tube guitar amplifiers, we have the Zvex Nano, the Wangs VT1-H or the Surprise Sound Lab: Rock Block.

Some years ago, DIY versions came out such as the Frequency Central Superfly amplifiers or the DeXTeR's SFA.

The whole project will be created using a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (Not the blog )

The URL for the project post series at my blog: http://soundcubed.com/category/projects/amplifiers/magnawatt/ or https://magnawatt.blogspot.com/p/concept.html


As full disclamer I will try to gather as many DIY minds as possible with your help. I will share the progress in a few places.

Br,
MJ

[EBK]

The URL for the project post series at my blog: http://soundcubed.com/category/projects/amplifiers/magnawatt/

You'll keep us up to date here too, right? 

[MJ_Sound_Cubed]

The URL for the project post series at my blog: http://soundcubed.com/category/projects/amplifiers/magnawatt/

You'll keep us up to date here too, right? 

Yes I will share in a few forums and blogs.

[MJ_Sound_Cubed]

The First block Diagram. I used and app called Dia Diagram Editor ( Free and multi-platform, link: http://dia-installer.de/ )

Here is the original .DIA file if you want to make your own twist,download it from this link:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1epMGB0vdRBGmj6BRz2mLU1UMaHyDlRj7


Here what`s inside:

[tcpoint]

Cool.  Look forward to seeing how this progresses.

[culturejam]

Neat. I will watch this one for sure.

[MJ_Sound_Cubed]

I used KiCAD to create the schematic (http://kicad-pcb.org/).

First version of the schematic. It might have a few errors. Help to check.



If you want to help with the PCB layout - https://drive.google.com/file/d/163WfDpMYKvSOI0zYaawF-IXAxBswxJgD/view?usp=sharing

[cooder]

Very cool! 

[MJ_Sound_Cubed]

Revision 2.



https://drive.google.com/open?id=10p4wVcGcIsf1aVbPdxBhTkF_RViXDKY0

[MJ_Sound_Cubed]

3D model almost finished.

[MJ_Sound_Cubed]

[cooder]

Now you just need to input that into a 3D printer and it will pump it out for you...


Just kiddin, looks great and well thought out!

[MJ_Sound_Cubed]

[MJ_Sound_Cubed]

Now you just need to input that into a 3D printer and it will pump it out for you...


Just kiddin, looks great and well thought out!

Yeah that would be a great way of testing the layout

[MJ_Sound_Cubed]

The PCB layout.