Idler power supplies

[Daniel Quinn]

Once again for Ali, I recently decided I prefer my Lenco in its new plinth to my pink.

Before it was up and running ( 6 months on account of only having I hand and spraying the top plate 5 colours ) I was worried I would need some form of power to control the speed. This as not proven to be the case.

I'm a wrong. What differences will I appreciate if I use one and for what reasons.

Please don't answer ' his power supplies are ace !' I'm not interested in such answers , but neither I'm I against them working.

I know it's HiFi but there must be a truth, after all its only rock n roll but I like it.

[Lurcher300b]

I am happy to send you one of mine to try, no money involved, just so you can see if it does or doesn't make a difference.

[zebbo]

I can see only way to convince you, one way or the other, and that's to borrow a power supply and try it with your Lenco.
Ha! there you go.

[Daniel Quinn]

Maybe you are correct Lurcher and zebbo.

Lurcher (keeps changing it to Luther, the name of my son ) thank you very much but i couldnt justify the expense even if it worked and if it worked id be annoyed to send it back. Thanks all the same.

The moral of the story appears to be stuck it and see..

[joe]

Post edited by moderator. It was playing the man and not the ball.
I have also deleted a number of posts that followed on from this

[Lindsayt]

I don't know about your idler, but with my EMT 930 idler the way to tweak the electricity reaching the motor is with a collection of various value capacitors and a stethoscope. The aim being to use the combination of capacitors that gives the least motor vibration.
I don't know if that's something that could be used to tweak your TT for minimal cost?

[savvypaul]

Back on topic, now, please.

[keepitsimplestupid]

Giving a deck a nice clean feed free of harmonics, dc offset and rfi cant hurt. I've heard Nick's psu make a significant difference at one of Brooks's dog's. That was vs a big ass mains regen unit...

[Ali Tait]

Yes, that was the point I was attempting to make, this unit makes improvements over and above other mains treatements.

[Lurcher300b]

The aim being to use the combination of capacitors that gives the least motor vibration

That sounds like its using the cap to provide a 90 degree phase shift to drive the motor. AFAIK, the Garrard and Lenco motor is a single phase motor so doesnt use them. One of my "may get around to" things is to do a version of the turntable supply that generates two 110v supplies 90 degrees apart, and allow that shift to be tweaked a couple of degrees either way.