New cabinet for my F5T

surfatwork

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I first assembled the F5T in 2017 or so, with a kit I purchased from @captrajesh - had some troubles, resolved in part with some new boards and layout tinkering. The amp sounded great, but a few weeks back, it caught my eye. The layout tinkering had resulted in a jugaad cabinet, and I felt the F5T deserved better.
So fired up Solid works (if you haven't used it, check out https://solidedge.siemens.com/en/free-software/overview/ - it's free for personal use and the best I've used so far).
Some YouTube videos inspired me to try a mid shelf cabinet, and a fancy top cover, so here's what the design looks like.

3mm top, bottom and rear
5mm mid shelf
10mm front
Held together by 12mm connector blocks.

Updates coming. Stay tuned, if you are interested.
 

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Work in progress.
I had an old CRCRC board from Prasi lying around, unpopulated. A little more digging unearthed a stash of MUR3020WTs and 10000uf/63V Cornell Dubelier caps. The Prasi boards were designed for 2 leg diodes, but I managed to shoehorn the MUR3020WTs after snipping off one leg. Controversial, I know.
The transformer is an old one that was already powering the F5T. So the Prasi board rectifies and outputs DC after the CRCRC. That then feeds two CRC banks, one for each channel. Why? I had all of these lying around and was tired of shutting them around. Also a good opportunity to check if too much capacitance is a thing - right now there's 300,000 uF total in this amp. Soft start obviously.
Let me know what you guys think.
 

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