PSU & Cover...

[Mikeeo]

Kenreau said:

Good to know, thank you.  I may wait on changing out the IEC PEM to see how you manage it.  I'll only have a brief time to tinker on it over this next month.  My current notion is about the only way to do it (with a F'tech) is some means (i.e. solder, or minor bus bar like connect) of top mounting the line and neutral tangs to the top of the small power entry circuit board.  The lower ground tang should go right in the stock place.

Thx
Kenreau


Kenreau- Looks like my choice for a new unfiltered IEC has been made for me. That strip at the back of the Devialet that anchors all the binding posts, RCA's etc is only 30mm tall. The FI-33 F'tech 20A IEC requires a 29mm tall cutout so that dog's not gonna hunt! My other two 15A runner-up choices require a 27mm tall opening and that is too tall as well. All I'm left with is the F'tech FI-06 Rhodium at $28.79 or I could've ordered gold for $6.50 less but blech. The FI-06 is a 100% alpha treated copper electrodes male IEC and that's the most important thing to me especially as compared to the OEM nickel-plated brass in the Devialet. The FI-06 fits the Devialet vertical opening with a half mm to spare but I'll have to extend the opening left-to-right with a dremel 1.5mm but that's a sub-2 minute job in aluminum at most and there's tons of room for that slight additional width. I'll use 3 short crystal cable Ultra high-current pigtail leads with soldered Rhodium plated male spades at the power board connection so everything there remains quick-disconnect as it was before, minus the EMI filter. Also won't kill me having that VERY magnetically attracted OEM steel-wrapped current restricting filter fall out of the Devialet. May well be the cheapest item I've ever ordered from Furutech!

Manoet,

I follow your procedure for sure and exchange for a Furutech IEC. But, when looking at the power board I can only see 'zero' and 'live', where do the ground cable go? I did not actually open mine up yet but from pictures from this forum (Toasted Power Filter Board) I can make where the ground goes.
Kindly tell what these "pigtail" leads are? I guess soldering is needed to the board.

/Mike