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Project Avant 32 -> speaker stand. advice/discuss?

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Twisty
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Twisty Posted: Wed, Jan 14 2015 2:06 PM
I'm doing a project to convert an Avant 32 VCR to a speaker stand and I appreciate any thoughts or advice. 
This is how I'm planning to do it.
I searched but couldn't find a pinout for the Sanyo chip based power amps. So I had a go at working it out myself, does the pinout below look ok?
My plan is basically to feed the audio signal directly from the RCA out on my flat panel TV.
The background to this project is I brought the beovision from a local charity shop, but was immediately told it was far too big for the living room!!! I really don't want to part with it because the sound is very impressive, so I'm trying to keep the speakers at least.
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Can't really contribute, but interesting project! 

Yes - thumbs up

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Twisty replied on Sun, Jan 18 2015 1:58 AM

My pinout appears to be correct! I managed to get one of the speakers hooked up and working.

It was getting too time consuming working out how to use the B&O PSU board so I'm using a 32V 3A power brick I had spare.

Unfortunately the stupid brick had a white stripe on the +ve wire and even stupider me didn't check and fried one of the amps, so now I need to find another amp or hopefully I can just switch out the caps.

I will post some pics when it is in some semblance of order.

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Twisty replied on Fri, Jul 24 2015 9:50 AM

I've made some progress on this recently, pictures below.

Unfortunately I've hit a big snag and I am hoping a kind knowledgeable member here could give me some advice.

I completed the electronics, and indeed I've played some music from discman/ipod and it sounds great. 

The problem is because I'm using a 0-32V supply rather than -19v - 0v - +19v which the amps were designed for, the audio input earth is floating at +16v to my local earth which means I cant connect to any other earthed equipment.

Is there an easier solution to this than me now making a centre tapped power supply?

I've done the woodwork structure apart from tabletop and some tidying up - I spent ages grinding down a hardwood offcut to connect what was the tube surround to the back of the base which is the stripe you can see on the side, I've got another piece of matching hardwood to go on the top.

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