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Amp Stuff => Tube Amp Building - Tweaks - Repairs => Topic started by: scarvin1 on November 15, 2011, 07:30:36 am

Title: 5E3 Board installation
Post by: scarvin1 on November 15, 2011, 07:30:36 am

  Hi All,

  Does anyone have a copy of the Hoffman 5E3 installation instructions? I have 2 built boards and cant get the inputs right.

Thanks in advance!

Mike

Title: Re: 5E3 Board installation
Post by: sluckey on November 15, 2011, 07:48:41 am

I don't think there is a set of installation instructions that are specific to the 5E3. This page of 'common hookups' has what you need for input jacks though.

http://www.el34world.com/charts/CommonHookups.htm (http://www.el34world.com/charts/CommonHookups.htm)

Title: Re: 5E3 Board installation
Post by: EL34 on November 17, 2011, 04:09:29 pm

As Steve said
There are not any specific instructions for each type of board.
Every chassis and installation is different

There are general installation instructions on the library page right next to the board layout docs

Use those instructions and the document Steve linked to

Title: Re: 5E3 Board installation
Post by: triode on November 17, 2011, 08:29:53 pm

Here are some tips I wrote up for my customers a while back. I slap a copy of that into the board kit when I
send them out. (if yours is a hoffman kit, this should be helpful, if its a weber or something check out their sites)

http://www.theairtightgarage.com/gallery/tipsforboardinstall.pdf (http://www.theairtightgarage.com/gallery/tipsforboardinstall.pdf)

As others mentioned, there are no step by step as there were in the days of Dynaco and Heathkit...
but there is a lot of information out there on the net and forums. If you run into specific problems, you
can always post them here.