pre65 Good to hear, I read of the dissapointment when the sales were slow last year, had me worried the SECA kit might be cancelled.
Although I haven't been able to find where to buy them in any ordinary way, you know, click a button and paypal handles the rest.
Could you tell me how you got yours? I suspect talk to Colin.
When it comes to building them it is somewhat scary since I dont have the skills to do any deeper level fault finding, seems well worth it tho.
I will now proceed to gush my ideas out, hope you dont mind. Hard not to, I have been thinking about it for a long time.
TL:DR, lots of random ideas.
Since I have more time than means this year I will go slow, start with a set of amp modules, work on the case design and cooling solutions.
My notes are full of ambitious plans that hopefully will come to fruition.
Work my way up to bi-amping, turn the bias down a little on the tweeter and juice up the base channels. I have no idea if it is possible but I imagine having a turbo button on the front, change the bias current and jack up the system from casual to max stupid hot magic.
Considering water cooling, radiators and pump in a separate case, minimize liquid spills, just have a few waterblocks in the amp case. Something I have done with high power LED projects, 2-300w cobs, all parts except the LEDs themselves are in a box a few meters away. They are still running strong after years of use.
Preparing to cool +3-400w with ease, 3x240mm rads, 6 undervolted fans, some temperature regulated fan controllers, maybe place it in a different room. Using chinese ebay parts the cooling unit ends up around 200GBP.
I am hoping to run 10w for tweeters and upwards of 30W on the base.
Oh and a stepped volume attenuator for a pre, stick it on the front.
Later on add the PSU boards and other bells n whistles.
I remember reading that there was thermistor control on the bias, cooler = more powa. Will look into it some more as I progress, damn , excited.