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I closed my eyes and tried to read the thread, I liked it better that way. Does that mean that the debate makes a difference?

Ken, Not sure. I know that Kevin came up with a Jig for working on one of Mikhail's amps. I'll ask him about it.

You're laughing with me, right?

I didn't take it as criticism, I was just joking around. But a simple search of Mouser using "2n3904" yielded many results including parts man'f by Fairchild.

Yeah the guy who put that together is a jackass. Or it could be that the BOM is 4 years old and references parts that were obsoleted by ROHS compliance.

The forum software, while powerful, cannot help him in this regard.

Already given, anyone who takes the discourse that went on in this thread seriously enough to make even a veiled threat like that gets some quality time to think about it.

How about you take a week to think about that comment?

3 custom machined drilling templates to hopefully help in modifying the Extreme chassis in an efficient way so they can actually breath a little.

I suppose, yes. Stating that there is some "rule" about using silver plated wire for analog signals and that it inherently sounds "bright and irritating" is fracken nonsense. I guess I just broke my own rule.

Agreed. My rule is I won't dignify blatant stupidity with a real response.

Thanks for that link Ethan, they certainly present some interesting options that I'll have to dig through.

I would not suggest going higher than 24V unless you have headphones that you know are going to need an enormous amount of voltage swing. 24V isn't that far away from the max the 8610 is rated for too (26V) and it's better to have a little safety margin.

I got the same email from them Peter but thanks for posting. I've got too many balls in the air right now and will have to revisit the desktop at a later date. It's lower on the priority list than others.

I don't know why but that made me .

Any chance that Al has a bad tube in the amp section that is causing super high start up currents and causing the power supply to act up? I know in the Menace if you hot start it it'll go arcy-sparky in the rectifiers (overdraw).

I've heard the single and had a decidedly luke warm reaction to it. For the curious - The Fallen Debuts First Single "Bury Me Alive" | Vote for the Worst

I work out so I can eat what I want. I am not an endurance athlete, don't want to be one, but would like to trim down a bit while still not worrying about caloric intake. The only way to do that is to work out a bit so that's what I do. I've had 5% body fat before, I don't see it ever happening again.

If you're going to use GPS on the bike I'd recommend not having it mounted anywhere and simply relying on the audible instructions. I don't want anything visually distracting mounted to my bike. I know some people do it, but it doesn't sit well with me.

I really like the Magellan 4250 that I got for Christmas this past year. It's cheap (~$125), the stock map has quite a bit of current information, around me at least and the screen is reasonably sized.. It's certainly not snazzy or top of the line and I like its GUI better than the TomTom's that I've seen.

John, The only good news is that from your description it doesn't sound like a HD failure so at least the content of the drive may be recoverable. I'm in the "take it somewhere" camp.

Kevin, Could the power supply be fixed easily without the amp section present?

Steve, Didn't you send me a pair of bookshelf(ish) speakers you already weren't using?