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Comment by Michael Coghlan on June 27, 2010 at 1:28pm

Thanks guys. I'll try the jaycar kit and see how it goes.

Comment by Philip Daniel on June 27, 2010 at 3:14am

Hmm, I made it some time ago. I think I made the kit standard, with a switchable gain setting. I left the micro pot off the bard and used an external logarithmic pot. The biggest issue is finding a suitable 8ohm speaker in a small package. Good luck.

Comment by Michael Coghlan on June 27, 2010 at 2:33am

Hi Philip, great looking amp. I'm struggling with building an amp myslff and thought I might try using The Champ kit from Jaycar. What are the modifications you made for yours and are their any tips you would offer having done it yourself? Thanks, Michael

Comment by Philip Daniel on December 10, 2009 at 1:01pm

It's basically a LM386 smokey. It's a combination of Beavis Audio and my own design modifications. The better radio shack in Australia is called Jaycar and they sell an LM386 amp kit called "The Champ" for about nine bucks so I used that as a starting point and changed some of the parts. Unfortunately the only speaker I could find was 4ohms and the amp definitely sounds better through 8ohms. That's what the extension speaker jack you can see on the right is for.

Comment by Kalmario on December 10, 2009 at 11:26am

being a rugby player i love that box! cool amp too, was it a kit or a home made effort?