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Hoffman Princeton Reverb Board Build

The Layout Diagram Schematic and BOM for this board are on this page

You can ask questions about this board on my forum here

I have some YouTube videos of this amp in action here

Note that Hoffman boards are not assembled by looking at my builds.
I do test builds first and change the designs based on those builds.
You assemble Hoffman boards using the documents listed below.
The Layout Diagram, Schematic and BOM for this board are on this page
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Hoffman Princeton Reverb Board
This is the board with the Turret lugs swaged onto the board

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Princeton Reverb board 
The lugs have been laced and soldered

I had to modify the board, it was too long to fit into the chassis.
I eliminated the 2 x 100 ohm resistors at the right end of the board.
The resistors will be installed on the back of the Fender lamp assembly like vintage Fenders

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Hoffman Princeton Reverb Board
On the back of the board there are 3 jumper wires

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Hoffman Princeton Reverb
The blank Princeton Reverb Chassis with the face panel and parts installed

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Hoffman Princeton Reverb
The buss wire has been soldered down the back of the pots

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Hoffman Princeton Reverb
The rear panel and all the parts have been installed
All bolt on parts have been installed
Tube sockets, Transformers, Jacks, On/Off Switch, Fuse holder, Filter cap
I blocked off the ground switch hole with a hole plug

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Hoffman Princeton Reverb
All bolt on parts have been installed
Tube sockets, Transformers, Jacks, On/Off Switch, Fuse holder, Filter cap

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Princeton reverb board 
Top View: The board has been mounted
This is the modifies board with the 2 x 100 ohm resistors removed
The new boards will all look like this board

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Hoffman Princeton Reverb
Bottom View

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Hoffman Princeton Reverb
Bottom View

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Princeton Reverb Board 
Got a bunch of the infrastructure wiring completed

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Hoffman Princeton Reverb Board
Cloth wire has been installed from the board to the tube sockets
The heater wires have been installed

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Hoffman Princeton Reverb
Cloth wire has been installed from the board to the tube sockets
The heater wires have been installed

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Hoffman Princeton Reverb
The components have been installed

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Hoffman Princeton Reverb
The components have been installed

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Hoffman Princeton Reverb
All done and ready to be fired up for the first time

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Hoffman Princeton Reverb
Finished the pot wiring and fired it up
Biased the EH 6V6's at 30ma as a general bias current for my first test
Plugged it into a Marshal 4x12 cabinet set at 8 ohms
It sounds great

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