Nottington Ace Space question, motor placement.

Updated the Wave Mechanic and motor to the latest versions. Big improvement.

My old Wave Mechanic was just filtration and voltage adjustment, but the new version is much more complex, and sounds far better (smoother, stronger, cleaner).

Terry9 - "My old Wave Mechanic was just filtration and voltage adjustment, "

I have a copy of hand written notes and a schematic sent from the designer Martin Bastin. These were dated 3/17/00. The unit described was a power regenerator. That is, an oscillator feeding an amplifier connected to a transformer to set up the output of the amp to line voltage. It was not just filtration and there was frequency adjustment, no voltage adjustment.

These notes were sent to a friend of mine so he could repair a malfunctioning unit. They were sent to me years later for the same reason. Turned out we both suffered from the same problem, a blown output transistor.

Shakeydeal - Glad to hear that you like your K&K Maxed Out. You might want to check out Kevin's new TT motor controller. There may still be a beta unit available. I got rid of my Wave Mechanic in favor of Kevin's.

beta TT controller

John,

That looks very interesting. I am a big fan of Kevin's work. I am actually using something similar with my WTA, but probably not quite as effective. It is the DPS outboard power supply that they sell. It has speed adjustment too.

I will have to check out Kevin's motor controller, thanks for the heads up.

Shakey

Hello John.

My Wave Mechanic was 1997 vintage. Mr. Bastin is of the opinion that what I received was not a true Wave Mechanic; I expect that Tom F simply pulled an early prototype off the shelf and sent me the unit in good faith.

I am exploring a more exotic motor controller based on an HP signal generator (which is gathering dust) and some 6090 op-amps. If it works, I'll let you know.