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Yes, I've been watching that as well and have enjoyed it.

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Regarding your last statement, Trump was the one who initiated the agreement with the Taliban for the US to withdraw by May 2021: https://www.axios.com/2021/08/20/trump-taliban-agreement-doha-biden Art of the deal my ass...

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It looks like the NC pins of the relay on the board are floating. I wonder if tying these to ground would take care of it?

Are you taking the + signal connection after the relay on the protector board? If you are taking it from the channel boards or before the relay, then I would expect a thump. Taken from the point your headphone jack is wired, it shouldn't thump I wouldn't think.

Good to hear on the caps insanity. Did you use the Kemets? I think those are pretty good, at least I haven't heard of anyone having problems with them though I don't know how long they have been in use and don't recall the history of that brand. I see they are owned by Yageo now. Desoldering those shouldn't have been a big deal. You just need a big enough tip and use a good solder sucker such as an Edsyn or an Engineer. I use a 3.2mm chisel tip on my Hakko 936 iron, and turn the temp up >700F for larger connections such as this. The boards these days are pretty good, particularly 2 layer boards, in terms of reworkability without lifting traces.

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Those would be fine. Some drop down to the 470uf in that cap as well, particularly if you are trying to get this in a 2U chassis. When I built the one I did for a French user, the 680uf were no longer stocked at mouser in the US. Some discussion in the GRHV thread here:

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Looks like you have to buy 250 of them though...

Not sure where you are at, but Octopart shows this: https://octopart.com/search?q=FJPF2145&currency=USD&specs=0

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