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A good video to show just how powerful these Ultracaps can be when let loose and a good explanation on ESR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoWMF3VkI6U

Draft CAD for aluminium Front plate below. Inset SD Card in the back with slot for both the IR and LED with recess on the front for 3mm window. Only one button in the assembly at the moment for reference only. I dropped 3 switches on the left but these can be placed anywhere we like so jump in with ...

New Aluminium Case Pack modeled and some parts dropped in to demonstrate available space. Front Aluminium Panel measures 334mm x 83.6mm x 2.6mm thick. A 10mm riser will give enough clearance to avoid cutting the extruded side panel for the SD Card. If we add an inclined face then this would be added...

Pics from a good days work yesterday, have almost 7 DAC boards ready now and going through touch ups and finishing by Nige and Fran. Got the cases and just starting to look at layouts and build next. https://i.postimg.cc/C106KFCV/5-of-7-Dac-Boards1.jpg 5 of the 7 boards https://i.postimg.cc/qvtFbDBW...

That looks like one serious piece of kit alright, love the transport engineering and I expect it will perform very well off the USB input from a PC as well.
Wish you many hours of enjoyment with it.

Finally got to hear the first DAC board today with USB in and powered by the Supercaps and it is amazing. Still hard to believe that for the cost involved it can put the Lampizator Big 7 with upgraded PS on the DAC board and EML 45 Globe Valves at $800 a pair a run for it money. We listened back to ...

Finally took up the challenge of a front panel with no screw heads and added adjustable tilt just to make life difficult :-( Posting some renderings below just for the concept and do not mind the colours since we can spray paint in any colour. Will start some test prints to see if this will work. Id...

Got me interested in finding out about Super or Ultra capacitors today....turns out i learned a bit about Estonia as well!!
https://youtu.be/KQ2Eo6wl5r0
https://www.skeletontech.com/ultracapacitor-webstore

That is great news Nige with the Supercaps...just noticed my incorrect wiring of the regulators after seeing your picture, glad you went in and caught that!

Great work guys....nice to hear music from one of those boards as well.
If you do test the SD player in the case Nige it is already bypassed for 3.3v direct to the power pins.
Picked up 4 x 1kG rolls of Print material from Radionics today so ready for printing what we need.