My version of the Spyder Power Supply

[Gilles C]

Ok, I finished wiring the first regulator board for the power supply I am building with the Weber multi-windings XFMR I bought last week, and I began wiring everything together for a first test.

Here are 2 pictures showing what I have for now. The first one shows the stripboard for the first 5 regulators, and the other one is my first test with the headphone amp I built this week. I hope that next one will be the Fat Boostered...





I didn't cut the wires shorter because I still have to find a box for it. Once the second stripboard is wired and tested, I will get the correct box and the plugs/jacks.

Any suggestion about the best way to put everything together in the box?

Thanks,

Gilles

[343 Salty Beans]

I am envious of your VERY neat work.

[Gilles C]

  Thanks, I do everything on paper (and computer...) first, it helps.

But I'm not as fast as some of you to wire things...

And it's a good thing because very often, I change my mind about some details while I'm building something. Like for the outputs, I decided to make them all 9V and just use two of them if I need 18V for a pedal someday. I bought only 9V regulators anyway. So it will be 8 x 9V regulated outputs (+ 1 x 9vac). And any one of them will be used for more than one effect if needed.

Gilles

[Gilles C]

I found a box to fit everything in. So I worked on the hardware this evening.

Here are a couple of pictures in case you would like to see one way of doing it.





If I had to do it again, I would make 2 regulator boards with 4 regulators on each instead of a set of 5 and a set of 2 or 3.

Still a mess, but I just drilled the holes, modded the box, etc... As you can see, I decided to saw the front part of the cover to make it easier to wire the plugs. After doing that, I thought I could have done the same for the back panel, but only to make the lower half of the cover fixed.

It was enough for today. I"ll wire everything next week.

Gilles