Thanks, I put em in

Ok another possibly stupid question. I already hooked up al the heater wires and was just about to wire up the power switch/lamp etc. I realised that the lamp is 6v and should be connected to the heaters.

What is the appropriate way to hook this up? Should I desolder the connections from the PT to pins 4/5 of V5 and solder them to each of the connections on the lamp and then from the lamp back to pins 4/5 of V5? Or should I just run wire from pins 4/5 of V5 back to the lamp connections?

I guess the first way uses less wire and is therefore less messy?

Also something else I noticed. I don't have an Earth tap coming off the power transformer. A black wire with a 0 printed is the last wire which I am guessing goes to the neutral on the mains socket. I don't have any wire after that to earth like it shows on the layout. The transformer is printed with 17 Jan 2011 so maybe this is a new design that earths itself?

Thanks for the info. Makes sense really.

I'll update this if I run into any more queries!

Hi all,

I just received my TMB EF86 kit and I have a couple of questions.

Is it advisable to use the diodes + cap on the rectifier tube? What does it do? The pictures don't show them on there so I am a little confused about it.

Also, with the shielded wire to V0 is it best to attach the 68k resistors at the input socket end or have them split at a tag board attached to the tube socket? Also I am assuming these get wired to the "main wire" of the shielded cable and the ground (green in the layout) is the braided part?

Thats it for now, I would apprectiate any help. I'm sure there will be other questions later but thats really the only things I have questions about at the moment.

Thanks,

Martin.

thanks, I found the pictures on the site so hopefully I'll do alright.

I did find some inconsistencies with the pictures and the layout though. On the layout there are diodes on the rectifier tube but on the images there is nothing.

Also there isn't shielded wire going to V1 from the input and a few other things.

Hi all,

I'm about to purchase the 18w TMB EF86 kit and need all the advice and information people can give me.
I have bult two metro amps JTM45's with great success and various pedals from BYOC. They all had essentially step by step instructions though so it was pretty much fool proof. Working just off a layout will be somewhat more difficult but I think I can do it.

I'm wondering if anyone has any gut shots that might be useful for me? any other advice?

I'm also wondering do the kits come with wire and hardware for bolting on the trannies/tube sockets?

Cheers.