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- Page 1 Updatemydynaco Dynaco PAT-5 Preamp Replacement RCA Jack Installation (PAT5RCA) © 2016-2018 AkitikA LLC All rights reserved Revision 1p4 October 26, 2018 Page 1 of 12...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents Table of Contents ........................ 2 Table of Figures ........................2 Section 1: About This Manual .................... 3 Who Should Attempt this Project? ................. 3 Tools you’ll need ......................3 Helpful Tools ........................3 Project Overview ......................3 Warning........................... -
Page 3: Section 1: About This Manual
Section 1: About This Manual This manual gives the information needed to build and install new RCA jacks into Dynaco’s PAT-5 Preamp. Who Should Attempt this Project? You can build this kit if you can: 1. Solder (using normal rosin core solder and a soldering iron). 2. -
Page 4: Important Safety Notes
60/40 Rosin Core solder. Akitika LLC’s liability shall in no event exceed the cost paid to Akitika LLC for the kit. Page 4 of 12... -
Page 5: Section 2: Kit Building Hints
That makes it easy to find the parts, and keeps them from getting lost. Is something in this manual confusing? Does something look wrong? Send your questions by email to dan@akitika.com dan@updatemydynac o.com. You’ll help yourself and everyone who builds the kit. -
Page 6: Installing The Jacks Onto The Mounting Pcb's
Installing the Jacks onto the mounting PCB’s If you have it, an 11/32” nut driver can make assembly much easier. You’ll assemble the four identical copies of the following. Please note that: Two will be built using red-insulator jacks, used for the right channel ... -
Page 7: Figure 4-Wiring Grounds, Lugs, And Capacitors On The New Jack Fields
Figure 4-Wiring Grounds, lugs, and capacitors on the new jack fields Figure 5-Original Jack Field Wiring Step by step instructions follow. You’ll perform these instructions twice, once for the Right Channel (RED) jack fields, and a second time for the Left Channel (WHITE) jack fields. -
Page 8: Section 3: Removing The Old Rca Jacks
2. Solder a bare wire between the grounds of jack 8 and 9. Keep the wire reasonably short. Try to leave room in the jack 8 hole as another ground wire from the preamp terminates there (added in a later step). 3. -
Page 9: Gaining Access To The Old Rca Jacks
5. Remove the cover and set it aside in a safe place. Gaining Access to the Old RCA Jacks Figure 6-Remove screws to loosen back panel Figure 7-Remove two screws that fasten back panel to power supply bracket Removing the jacks may be made much easier by loosening the back-panel. Remove four screws (refer to Figure 6) and two screws (Figure 7) that fasten the back panel to the power supply bracket. -
Page 10: Figure 8-Accessing Right Channel Jacks
You can gain access to the Left channel jacks by raising them above the back panel. You can gain access to the Right channel jacks by lowering them below the back panel. Figure 8-Accessing Right Channel Jacks Figure 9-Adding the 470 pF caps Page 10 of 12... -
Page 11: Transfer The 470 Pf Capacitors
Transfer the 470 pF Capacitors Note that the right side of Figure 5 shows two 470 pF caps associated with jack 12 and jack 24. Carefully de-solder those two caps. 1. Install one of those caps between the center (hot) terminal of jack 12 and its associated ground terminal. -
Page 12: Re-Installing The New Jacks
You’ll definitely find that it’s tight quarters. On my PAT-5, I cut all the wires close to the original jacks, and had enough slack to move them to the new jacks. You might choose to de-solder the wires from the old jack. I worked one jack field at a time, and transferred just one wire at a time.
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