Undertow and Face,
Thank you both very much for your replies, they were very helpful. Based on your experience, for this project I'm going to go 100% Clarity MR.
As for the inductors, I was planning to match the manufacturer's values but experiment with a heavier gauge. But Face your comments are well received and appreciated. I figure that if I don't go too exotic then I can always backtrack without much loss. I don't know what the gauge of the wire used in the stock inductors in the Boleros is, but it looks pretty dinky. And Undertow, thanks for the warning about the size of the 8awg inductors. Once I had the required inductance values I was going to figure up the layout requirements, but something the size of a car battery is likely bigger than I would can use due to space constraints.
I was just looking at the U.K. site, hificollective, and the Mundorf 10&12awg foil inductors look interesting, particularly the 12awg as they are not too expensive should my foray outside the 5% DCR value Face recommended prove disastrous... and from looking at the stock inductors I'm assuming I'll end up outside that 5% boundary. The same would hold true for the more moderate gauge North Creek inductors too I think. I'm just going to have to get the inductance values I need and have a look at the dimensions of these options to see what's feasible for me.
Well, I think capacitors and resistors are settled: Clarity MR and Duelund CAST, respectively. I'll just have to decide between the North Creek wire and Mundorf foil coils.
I also want to say that, Undertow and Face, I have read all of your posts on this thread and they were exactly what I needed. For this project I needed to make the best compromise I could for cost/performance and I am very confident that the MR is the way to go. Thank you again for your help and for sharing your experience.
John
Thank you both very much for your replies, they were very helpful. Based on your experience, for this project I'm going to go 100% Clarity MR.
As for the inductors, I was planning to match the manufacturer's values but experiment with a heavier gauge. But Face your comments are well received and appreciated. I figure that if I don't go too exotic then I can always backtrack without much loss. I don't know what the gauge of the wire used in the stock inductors in the Boleros is, but it looks pretty dinky. And Undertow, thanks for the warning about the size of the 8awg inductors. Once I had the required inductance values I was going to figure up the layout requirements, but something the size of a car battery is likely bigger than I would can use due to space constraints.
I was just looking at the U.K. site, hificollective, and the Mundorf 10&12awg foil inductors look interesting, particularly the 12awg as they are not too expensive should my foray outside the 5% DCR value Face recommended prove disastrous... and from looking at the stock inductors I'm assuming I'll end up outside that 5% boundary. The same would hold true for the more moderate gauge North Creek inductors too I think. I'm just going to have to get the inductance values I need and have a look at the dimensions of these options to see what's feasible for me.
Well, I think capacitors and resistors are settled: Clarity MR and Duelund CAST, respectively. I'll just have to decide between the North Creek wire and Mundorf foil coils.
I also want to say that, Undertow and Face, I have read all of your posts on this thread and they were exactly what I needed. For this project I needed to make the best compromise I could for cost/performance and I am very confident that the MR is the way to go. Thank you again for your help and for sharing your experience.
John