GA15 RV turret board

[mak009]

Hi,
First post

Any thoughts on how to build up a turret board for a Gibson (Trace Elliot designed and built) GA15RV? I have the schematic and component list (from the manual)
The amp sounds great but is constructed "to a price" with fairly skimpy PCB traces and machine stuffed with 1/4 watt resistors and low grade components.

I am planning on building a more robust version on a turret board.

Any help much appreciated

mak009

Australia

[sluckey]

Read the first two topics in the "Hoffman Turret and Eyelet Boards" forum.

[mak009]

Thanks for the reply.
I had already read those posts, but there is no info on how to transfer a schematic to a .dxf file.

That seems to be the tricky part-do you have to do this manually or is there a prog which accepts scanned schematics and generates a layout for turret or eyelet boards? Obviously there are lots of decisions in there regarding grounding scheme, power supply topology etc.

[sluckey]

Open the very first topic and look at the second line in the first post. Click on the link to go to Doug's program to create a custom board. Now click the button that says "Click here to create a new Board file". Follow the instructions to start putting turrets on a blank board.

[John]

Thanks for the reply.
I had already read those posts, but there is no info on how to transfer a schematic to a .dxf file.

That seems to be the tricky part-do you have to do this manually or is there a prog which accepts scanned schematics and generates a layout for turret or eyelet boards? Obviously there are lots of decisions in there regarding grounding scheme, power supply topology etc.

I think you're looking to submit a schematic, and have it automatically turned into a layout? if so, not on this site. You create the layout yourself on graph paper or whatever, and then manually input the info where Sluckey said.

[mak009]

OK Thanks. Back to the drawing board.