Housing your unit

With panel removed once again, you can now fit the switches. The C&K PCB mountable switches should fit tightly into their respective holes on the board. Make sure the ‘on-off-on’ switch goes into the ‘filter control’ location. You may need to use a pair of fine nosed pliers to help the flexible gold pins into the board holes.

Make sure the switch body is flat against the board. Now refit the front panel and make sure the round switch barrel fits into its hole in the front panel. Now solder all the pins on the switch including the securing pins to the front.

That completes the soldering of the front panel components.

The PCB has been designed to fit into a standard 1u high 19” rack unit. Your local parts distributor will have these. Good rack units are quite expensive, and will contribute heavily to the final cost of your completed 3031. Expect to pay around £30 or so.

Your choice of case will also be affected by what else you want in your enclosure. In my prototype, I also have the tbDAC and internal mains transformer. This would require a case that is at least 25cm deep. If you are just fitting the 3031 PCB and a few sockets on the back, you could get away with a smaller depth case.

If you find a good supplier of low depth 1u metal racks in the UK, I would be pleased to hear from you. Maplin sell an excellent range of racks, but all of them are very deep. Bryant Broadcast, Electrospeed and RS Electronics Ltd do have a range of rack units that may be suitable.

The Bryant Broadcast ones are superbly made, but they do not allow you to use the 3mm thick Scheaffer front panel. Their cases actually utilise the front panel as part of the enclosure. Simply swapping the Bryant panel with one obtained from Schaeffer will not work. Of course, if you are drilling out the Bryant panel to the Scheaffer plan, then this would indeed work wonderfully. Bryant do custom metal work, so it may be possible to try their services. This is one area I would like to try in the near future. Another option is to send the plain Bryant Broadcasting front panel to Scheaffer for engraving. Contact Scheaffer for details of this service.

If you buy the cases made by Vero from Farnell and others, you will find that the height of the unit internally is quite restricting. The bottom and lower panels have 6mm folds in them at the front. This effects the amount of space available for the pots and circuit board at the front panel. It is possible to use these cases as I have done, but I needed to cut back the three pins on each pot to prevent them shorting with the case. The pot bracket pins actually prevent the case from then touching the pot’s pins. This is all right, but you need to allow a minimum of 0.5mm slack when you fit the front panel to the case.

The other thing to beware is the heatsinks. Don’t let either one of them touch the top panel, or the top surface of the PCB since this would cause major problems. This shouldn’t happen if you make sure the regulators ICs are fitted tight against the PCB.

3031 specifications

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