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Builders now make the inside sooo beautiful

groundwire

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Im seeing a new trend starting to happen now with ALOT of these amp builders. They are painting the copper board pretty colors, color coordinating all the wires and components, painting the ferite beads fancy colors etc etc. Then they are charging ridiculous amounts of money because the amp is so pretty and an art piece inside. And most of these builder's are not giving the customer the choice to not want it, they say "thats the way i make them, if you dont like it go somewhere else ". I dont know about other folks but who cares what the inside looks like. Build an amp properly that works correctly and call it good. I mean what are we supposed to do with it, take it apart every time to show people how sexy the inside of your amp looks? Hahaha, its pretty funny really. Look inside any amateur or commercial amp, they use whatever wire and components they had in stock that month to build them, they dont care about pretty colored wires and some fancy color scheme. First cb radios are like Christmas tree lights now the inside of amps too? What is it with this new generation of cb'ers and their need for pretty lights and colors on radio equipment? I just dont understand. Just make stuff that works correctly with usable and needed functions, you can keep the lipstick and rouge. Remember grey, black and bakelite? Yeah.
 
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how have these guys not yet realized that cool backlit analog meters on the face of the amp are the key to increased sales!?

the only thing cooler than pretty colors is a moving needle!

the thing i can't wrap my head around is why none of them are etching their copper boards?!

it can be done so cheap and easy these days and you don't need any pill strips or "floating transformers".
LC
 
I guess we'd need to see the insides of one to know...

<<<A Tesla pulls up to the corner where some guys are standing>>>

Hey Man! Kewl car, hey - is that your new stereo?

Naw man, that's my new amp for my CB!

Does it work?

Yeah, kind 'a ...

What do you mean?

Well, watch...

Turns it on, it lights up and has even a window in which to see those innards all fluorescently glowing...

Ok, Thats kewl, but does it work?

---hesitantly---

Well, things are ok - until I do this...

...keys' up the mic on the Cobra 29 NW sitting alongside it...

...a loud SNAP is heard and a poof of smoke - then nothing...

Car and Radio amp all goes dark...

See what I mean?

Wow man - Gott 'a get a real car to power that thing...

6,000lbs of dead weight and burnt blown batteries and their modules...

Sure! Let's just blow $60,000 on a new set of tires to go along with those batteries...
 
Painted polished and spit shined
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They have Way Too much time on their hands.

It's like buying a used car, you can wash n wax it up, vacuum the interior - even try to make it look showroom new, but the ODOMETER still tells the story.

You can do more damage to the components if you fuss with it too much, and it may not work as intended the moment paint, being non-conductive at DC but not at RF or having any sort of conductivity is applied to areas that are RF active - will ruin the work.

Anyone with experience in RF burns, SWR tuning - Dielectric issues - knows this.
 
I purposely have not dropped any names because i dont wanna rip on these guys as a couple of them are really good amp builders, but a youtube or facebook search will get you there to some fine examples

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Well if the enclosure and board looks like it came from ICA no amount of paint will make it look like anything it is not!

That is not a slight against ICA either!

If your just building a warmed over version or what all the other builders are also building with the same designs and components I guess you have to do something to stand out.

At this point it has been a race for 8+ years to see who can build a product that will survive for a little while with the cheapest parts money can buy from China!
 

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