Your solution works as well. My feeling was that a cut/soldered cable might pose problems with time, and the drilled access hole allows one to feed a IEC through it with no damage to cable. Cleaner, yes! Ojalá que! Both my and my tech buddy's soldering skills were not as adept as his drilling ones. We chose the path of least resistance.
Don't even need to solder... You can buy another plug with screw down terminals for a few bucks at the local hardware store.
That's all true. But, it also makes it harder (or at least uglier) to repair if that cable ever fails.
I've never had an iec cable fail. Yet. I built one like I described for my FM3 and had no issues but I didn't use it long because I ended up ditching that building.
If I may, drilling out one of the larger access holes, sanding the edges down with metal sandpaper and tapping the edges over with electrical tape provides the best solution. Locate a 18" or 2' IEC cable that can connect to a power supply underneath, or buy a Temple Audio IEC module that can connect to the closer side of your TA board. Standard IEC including Temple Audio IEC does not fit thru the undrilled access holes.
My Duo 34 utilizes a Furman AC-215A power supply and a TA IEC Module. Saves on needing to lug a spare surge protector/power strip around in my gear bag. Only thing that might require a surge protector is one of my FRFR108s I'd put on the floor. House PA usually has that covered.
This is nuts! I'm thinking of doing something similar. How did the foam cutting go? Can we get some updated pics of the case with the foam cut?
I haven't cut it yet!
TBH, it's happened to me at least twice if not 3 times. XLRs or soldered TS cables. I'd rather not let potentially bad cables eat into my savings than just sidestep the process altogether and kindly inform people larger access holes won't damage what you put in, IF you sand down the sharp drilled metal edges and tape over them to safeguard them.
That makes sense. Do you have to squish the lid down onto the boards in order to close it?I haven't cut it yet!
There's honestly not going to be much foam left. I'll probably just create some "bumpers" a few inches thick along the long sides.
The few times I've used it, I take everything out except the thin upper and lower foam.
Then I put the boards in place with a thin foam piece between the 2 of them, and a block that's maybe 16x4x4 wedged into one side of the case that prevents shifting.
It's frigging heavy loaded up but it works well.
I've been thinking about cutting the Duo 24 down by a few inches to allow adding some more foam between the 2 boards but haven't decided yet.
Not much, but yes.
Yup. In the gear bag at all times. It's also because IEC cable requires heavier gauge wire than 1V audio cables. 1V audio cables are typically core with braided shielded cable that don't usually have molded connectors, for reason of the TS/TRS plugs. XLRs are slightly better in this regard because of the molded connectors, but still fail after misuse or abuse.
As sad as this seems, it's humorous at the same time. I don't know whether I need a tissue or a beer...
Why 2 wireless?
A refill it is.
2 guitars
