The Mellotron Group

I'd be reading up on eBay if I were you.
 
 
In a message dated 5/29/2012 3:35:06 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
fourtytwominds@yahoo.com writes:

 
 
 
I'm not sure if I'm venting or asking for help or what here.

It  started innocently enough. I was going to build a FrankenLeslie. Took 
an oem  Leslie 10 unit out of a dead and worthless Hammond J series spinet. 
(One of  those horrible cheesy Hammond transistor bastards.) I'm going to 
build it a  proper Leslie-like cabinet. I'm going to plug my A-100 into it.

All I  need to do is build a simple and elegant power supply and amplifier 
to drive  the single 8" 8ohm speaker.

I've been trying to read up on amplifiers  and my head is just spinning. 
(Like the rotor should be!) I've spent many  hours today on Elliot Sound 
Product's backend of of articles and projects. I  got horribly confused in the 
first section of "The Beginnner's Guide to  Amplifiers."

Thinking I should have majored in electronics engineering  instead. I had 
no idea a simple amplifier could be so horrendously  complicated. It, 
apparently, IS rocket science.

</RANT>

I  guess the appropriate thing to ask is: Where should I be reading up or 
copying  from or whatever to build a simple, elegant, amplifier that can take 
the  balanced signal that comes out of a Hammond?

Thanks.
Off to take 18  more gelcaps of ibuprofen.

-Sean