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		<title>Using UPS Transformers for Tube Amp Projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2014 12:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laird Bedore]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re looking to build an amp on a budget, one of the hardest pills to swallow is the cost of a suitable power transformer. Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if there was a cheap alternative you could pull from the scrap heap? We all have probably owned more than one cheap consumer-grade UPS over the last decade. If we&#8217;re lucky we can replace the 12v batteries in it a few times and squeeze 10 years of life out of one, but eventually something goes wrong on the circuit board and the UPS is toast. When that happens, bust out the&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
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		<title>LBA AC-15 Head</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laird Bedore]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like most things in life, I never want one of anything. One computer, one guitar, one motorcycle&#8230; No, I want that British chime. I want that pentodey grind. I want a Vox. So I built one! Quite possibly my most successful custom amp build is my AC15-inspired head. But it didn&#8217;t start out that way&#8230; it wasn&#8217;t built from a kit, broke a lot of rules, went through a lot of changes and fixes and trial-and-error, but in the end turned out to be the best-sounding amp I have built to date. I want to share some of the ups&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
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		<title>(Not too) High Gain 8W Amp</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2014 13:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laird Bedore]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Projects tend to grow. Evolve. Transform. Take on a life of their own. Some of them find bizarre ways of staying alive, or coming back to life after you think they&#8217;re long dead. Sometimes they start as one thing, become something else, and come around full circle to be what you started with in the first place. This is one of those &#8220;living&#8221; projects that just keeps on changing. First there was a Firefly. It turned into a (very) low-power JCM800. Then it became the EF-Bomb. Then the EF-Bomb split into a high-voltage and low-voltage version. The high-voltage version became&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
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		<title>Single-Tube add-on Reverb</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 20:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laird Bedore]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day I dug through my pile of salvaged transformers and came across an interesting little piece. It&#8217;s an inter-stage percussion transformer from a Hammond M3 organ, part A0-24113-0. It is listed as T5 in the AO67, M100, and other circuits. It&#8217;s about 1.5&#8243; x 2&#8243;, not very big. Hammond used it as an inter-stage signal transformer that also coupled in a low-impedance signal on a third winding. Everyone who has ever scrapped a Hammond organ has one of these sitting around, so there are plenty of them out there for cheap or free. I fed it a little AC&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
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